When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
JOHN DRYDENNone 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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The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Presence of mind and courage in distress, Are more than arrives to procure success?
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Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.
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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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So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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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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