We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
JOHN DRYDENThe love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: 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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While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day.
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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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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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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Silence in times of suffering is the best.
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And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
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And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
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Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Merit challenges envy.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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All authors to their own defects are blind.
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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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Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Long pains, with use of bearing, are half eased.
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Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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