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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

They that possess the prince possess the laws.
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Law Possession Prince
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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Authority Better General Man Opinion Understand
Affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue,–I mean good-nature,–are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind and staff of life.
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Life Man Origin Virtue Word
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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Boil Nature Rise
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours.
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Appetite Digestion Quick Yourself
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
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Alone Day Happiness Live Man Myself Secure Worst
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due

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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