But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
JOHN DRYDEN
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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War is the trade of kings.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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