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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

Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Live Lost Luxury People Public
The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind’s great bribe.
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Act Generous Greatness Pleasure Secret
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.
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Death End Grave Kind Mourn
Merit challenges envy.
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Advantage Jealous One Liner
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Truth is the foundation of all knowledge and the cement of all societies.
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Cement Foundation Knowledge Society Truth
Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Equality Life Live Right
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.
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Himself Man Son Treat
A good conscience is a port which is landlocked on every side, where no winds can possibly invade. There a man may not only see his own image, but that of his Maker, clearly reflected from the undisturbed waters.
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Conscience Goodness Image Man Reflection Water
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
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Continue End Goodness Grace Principal Virtue
All delays are dangerous in war.
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Dangerous Delay War
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
Truth is the object of our understanding, as good is of our will; and the understanding can no more be delighted with a lie than the will can choose an apparent evil.
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Choice Delight Evil Lying Object Truth Understand

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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