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Griefs assured are felt before they come.

John Dryden

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
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Kind Man Vice Virtue
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
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Honor is but an empty bubble.
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Empty Respect
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store

Griefs assured are felt before they come.

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