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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

John Dryden

A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason 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
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Age Writing
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Creation Earth Eyes Man Mom Sky Soft
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

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