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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

John Dryden

Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Beware Man Patience
Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Fury Revenge See
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
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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Forgiveness Injury Wrong
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
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
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
Youth, beauty, graceful action seldom fail: But common interest always will prevail; And pity never ceases to be shown To him who makes the people’s wrongs his own.
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Action Beautiful Fall Grace Himself People Wrong Youth
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
JOHN DRYDEN

Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

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