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All delays are dangerous in war.

John Dryden

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong
When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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Live Past Remember Thankful
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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Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking

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