When I consider life, 't is all a cheat.
Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.
To-morrow 's falser than the former day;
Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
And from the dregs of life think to receive
What the first sprightly running could not give.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Aurengzebe, Act iv, Sc. 1
Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay.
To-morrow 's falser than the former day;
Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
Strange cozenage! none would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;
And from the dregs of life think to receive
What the first sprightly running could not give.
-- John Dryden (1631-1700)
-- Aurengzebe, Act iv, Sc. 1
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- T is not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that 's new.
John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Aurengzebe, Act iv, Sc... - Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what,
we know not where. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) --... - saga n.
[WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N
random broken people.
Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told... - Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great
crystal river.
Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the... - Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a
great crystal river.
Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the... - I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat,
by the menaces of a ruffian. -- Samuel... - Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness,
feel the slippery finish. Caresses it, experience it... - Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear / Thou ever wilt remain;
One only hope my heart can cheer,-- / The hope...
