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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.

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.
JOHN DRYDEN

Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
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
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Eagle Fools Mount Myself Wings
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
JOHN DRYDEN

Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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Choice Fate Love
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Errors Flow Gratitude Surface
We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Art Nature Teaching

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