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No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.

John Dryden

And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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Dance Foot Poetry
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
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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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
Fame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead.
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Cheap Death Fame
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking

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