All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDENBetter to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!
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Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of fate are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave deserves the fair.
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Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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