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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

John Dryden

The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
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

War seldom enters but where wealth allures.

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