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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

John Dryden

Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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Friendship Love Price Time Treat
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
JOHN DRYDEN

Delight Freedom Human Kind
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
JOHN DRYDEN

Affection Goodness Grace Principal
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
JOHN DRYDEN

Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death End Grave Kind Mourn
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?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
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
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
JOHN DRYDEN

Age Night Old Ourselves

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

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