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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

John Dryden

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure Love
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
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
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
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
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
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
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
God never made his work for man to mend.
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God Man Mend Work
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

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