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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

John Dryden

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
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
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 all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Gift Heaven Liberty Life Love
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Freedom Man Nature Run Savage Wild
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

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