You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.

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Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.

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If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

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Fragment of a Character of Jacob Tonson, His Publisher

With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair,
With two left legs, and Judas-coloured hair,
And frowzy pores that taint the ambient air.

poem by John Dryden
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes...
Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind
Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

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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.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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Epitaph On a Nephew, In Catworth Church, Huntingdonshire

Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear.
She always weeps, who laid him here;
And will do till her race is run;
His father's fifth, her only son.

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