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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.

John Dryden

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
There is a proud modesty in merit.
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Advantage Modesty Proud
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching

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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