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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

John Dryden

For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.
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Hate Home Name Peace Soul
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
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

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

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