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

John Dryden

All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
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
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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?
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Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
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
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
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past

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