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For they can conquer who believe they can.

John Dryden

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Fair Fate Myself Possession Rain Shine Time
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
As one that neither seeks, nor shuns his foe.
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Enemy One Liner Seek Shine
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.
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Eyes Feeling Ourselves Soul Tender Togetherness Touch
Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.
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Confidence Fact Known
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
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Greatness Treason Trust
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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Future Heart State Tongue Tremble
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Fragile Love Mindset
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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Fortune Madness Prudence Rule
Not 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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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp

For they can conquer who believe they can.

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