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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

John Dryden

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Himself Loss See Vice
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Degree River Sea
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Brave Despair Happiness
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
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
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
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

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