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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

John Dryden

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
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
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
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies.
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Age Genius Kind Live Study Universe
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Growth Myself Reputation Young
If the faults of men in orders are only to be judged among themselves, they are all in some sort parties; for, since they say the honour of their order is concerned in every member of it, how can we be sure that they will be impartial judges?
JOHN DRYDEN

Honor Judgement Man Member Mistake Order
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
JOHN DRYDEN

Death Finding Love Time Way
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN

Distance Flesh Goodness Present

For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?

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