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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

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
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Myself Poverty Soul Virtue Warm
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Age Alone Enough Reason Strong Walk Youth
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.
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Face Need See Truth
Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.
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Myself Old Power Remember
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass’d; The next, in majesty; in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go; To make a third, she join’d the former two.
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Age Distant Force Herself Nature Poet
If thou dost still retain the same ill habits, the same follies, too, still thou art bound to vice, and still a slave.
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Bound Habit Slave Vice
Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.
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Desire God Greatness Sin
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.
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Complain Leisure Light Suffering
Old age creeps on us where we think it night.
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Age Night Old Ourselves
Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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Guilty Reveal Secret Silence
But how can finite grasp Infinity?
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Finite Grasp Infinity
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
All authors to their own defects are blind.
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Author Blind Defect
None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDEN

Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
JOHN DRYDEN

Errors Flow Gratitude Surface

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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