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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.

John Dryden

When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
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Judgement Life Man
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Believe Conquer
But when to sin our biased nature leans, The careful Devil is still at hand with means; And providently pimps for ill desires.
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Desire Hands Nature Sick Sin
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Creation Dew Greatness Himself Morning Spirit
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
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
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength

I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.

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