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Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts.

John Dryden

When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
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
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
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
But love’s a malady without a cure.
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Cure 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
Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.
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Fools One Liner Patriot
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
If passion rules, how weak does reason prove!
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Evidence Passion Reason Rule Weakness
Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
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Criticism Revenge Writing
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man.
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Death Man Thinking Virtue
There is a pleasure in being mad, which none but madmen know.
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Known Mad Pleasure
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
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
If by the people you understand the multitude, the hoi polloi, ’tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in the wrong; their judgment is a mere lottery.
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Judgement People Thinking Understand Wrong

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