All delays are dangerous in war.
JOHN DRYDEN
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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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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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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