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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

Murder may pass unpunished for a time, But tardy justice will overtake the crime.
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Crime Murder Punishment Time
They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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Advise Sick
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature
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
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five-and-twenty.
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Growth Myself Reputation Young
Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
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
I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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Fight Myself Rise Wound
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves; who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
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Best Kind Ourselves Steal
Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
JOHN DRYDEN

Goodness Happiness Instrument Laughter Man Rate

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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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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