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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.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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Live Myself Past Power Rain Shine Worst
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
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Anger Cherish Disappear Forget
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
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
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil

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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