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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

John Dryden

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
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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Nature Obligation Response Trust
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
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
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
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

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