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All delays are dangerous in war.

John Dryden

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.
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Himself Judgement Praise Theme
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.
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Death Dreams Heaven Herself Life Success
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
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.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
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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Emotion Enthusiasm Height Imagination Paint Poet Soul
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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Fight King Mad Man Praise
Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Courage Mindset Presence Success

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