A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.
JOHN DRYDENThe scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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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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Sweet is pleasure after pain.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Virtue is her own reward.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
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For those whom God to ruin has design’d, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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The conscience of a people is their power.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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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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Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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