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Few know the use of life before ’tis past.

John Dryden

Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
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 secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
I never saw any good that came of telling truth.
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Goodness Myself Talk Truth
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up

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