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O freedom, first delight of human kind!

John Dryden

Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
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Estate Himself Misery Money Sell Soul
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
JOHN DRYDEN

Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat

O freedom, first delight of human kind!

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