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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

John Dryden

Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
No king nor nation one moment can retard the appointed hour.
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King Mad Moments Nation
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Hold Last Sweet
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
He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.
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Fountain Goodness Sense
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
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
Parting is worse than death; it is death of love!
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Death Love Part Worst
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
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Fear Horrible Ourselves Silence Temptation
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth

Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.

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