Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
JOHN DRYDENFaith 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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Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.
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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew.
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Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph make atheists of mankind.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes… Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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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