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When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time

When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.

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