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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

John Dryden

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
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
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
The conscience of a people is their power.
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Conscience People Power
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
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
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

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