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Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.

John Dryden

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
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Of all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
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Human Kind Mindset Worst
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
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
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
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
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise

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