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Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

John Dryden

Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
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
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength

Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.

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