=Delay.=

Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary.
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SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer;
Next day the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life.
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YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 390.


=Deliberation.=

Deep on his front engraven,
Deliberation sat, and public care.
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MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 300.


=Delight.=

She was a phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight,
A lovely apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament.
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