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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

Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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Build Destroy
Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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Distance Flesh Goodness Present
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
Lucky men are favorites of Heaven.
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Favorite Heaven Man
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Death Fear Known
When I consider life, ’tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow’s falser than the former day.
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Cheat Day False Fools Life
To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil.
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Common Death Devil Evil
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
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
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Infidelity Mysterious Thinking
Time and death shall depart and say in flying Love has found out a way to live, by dying.
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Death Finding Love Time Way
All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Glitter Gold
By education most have been misled.
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Direction Education One Liner
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
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Numerous Talk Thinking

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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