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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

John Dryden

We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
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
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
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
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
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
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

Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

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