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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

He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.
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Performance Quick Slow
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
Repartee is the soul of conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Soul
Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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Follow Natural Obligation Paint Rock Sculptor
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
By education most have been misled; So they believe, because they were bred. The priest continues where the nurse began, And thus the child imposes on the man.
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Believe Children Direction Education Lost Man
But Shakespeare’s magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.
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Himself Magic Walk
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
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Bound Divison Greatness Intelligence Mad
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.
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Devotion Ignorance Mom Myself Yourself
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly.
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Fly Joy Youth
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due

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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