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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.

John Dryden

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
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Order is the greatest grace.
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Greatness One Liner Order Peace
Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the’ appointed place we tend; The world’s an inn, and death the journey’s end.
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Boast Born Death End Journey Live Man Place Sincere
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
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
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
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

Few know the use of life before ’tis past.

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