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As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

John Dryden

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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Cheat Day False Fools Life
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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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking
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
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson

As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.

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