Repentance is but want of power to sin.
JOHN DRYDENTrust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
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The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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Order is the greatest grace.
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More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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Love is love’s reward.
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We by art unteach what Nature taught.
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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
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Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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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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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Trust reposed in noble natures obliges them the more.
JOHN DRYDEN