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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.

John Dryden

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Erase Pain
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
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
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
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
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
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
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.
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Action Essence Fiction Human Poetry Story
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue

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