When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.
JOHN DRYDENNot sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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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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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
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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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Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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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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By education most have been misled.
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All delays are dangerous in war.
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Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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