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 DRYDENBeauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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The winds are out of breath.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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