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

John Dryden

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
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Better Health Himself Man Work
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
War is the trade of kings.
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King One Liner Trade War
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
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

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

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