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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Zeal, the blind conductor of the will.
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Blind Willing Zeal
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
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
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow

Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

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