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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

John Dryden

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.

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