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When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.

John Dryden

The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Friendship Tears
Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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Crime Oblivion
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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Believe Easy Invisible Mindset Unknown
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
They live too long who happiness outlive.
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Happiness Live
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue

When a man’s life is under debate, The judge can ne’er too long deliberate.

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