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The bravest men are subject most to chance.

John Dryden

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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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
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
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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Bold Fear Greatness Mask
The winds are out of breath.
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Breathe Wind
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 not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
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
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

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