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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

John Dryden

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Music Passion Raise
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
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
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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Dreams Forget Forward Mindset Time
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow

We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.

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