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

John Dryden

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
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
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
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
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
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
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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Genius Gift Happy Nature
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth

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

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