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All delays are dangerous in war.

John Dryden

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Pain Pleasure Sweet
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Brown Easy Light Night
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Pride – Lord of human kind.
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Human Kind Pride
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.
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Thinking Unknown Whistle

All delays are dangerous in war.

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