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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

John Dryden

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
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
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
Love is love’s reward.
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Love One Liner Reward
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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One Liner Power Regret Sin
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Adversity Grief Misery Wicket
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking
For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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Children Edge Fools Secret Tools
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
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
There’s a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.
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Gift Modesty Proud Time
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.
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Himself Master Secret Servant Trust
Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Assurance Feeling Grief
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

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Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

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