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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

John Dryden

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
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Plate Time Writing
The trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Excitement Loud
We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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Chance Hot Iron Leisure
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
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
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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Fear Learning Lesson
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
Beware the fury of a patient man.
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Fury Man Patience
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
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o’er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
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Age Empty Experience Known Start World
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Adventure First Forgiveness Reason Rule
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
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Cheating Favor Fools Hope Life
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust

Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.

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