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

John Dryden

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
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
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
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
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice

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

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