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Love is love’s reward.

John Dryden

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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Believe Faith Grace Reward See Strength
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
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Character Habit Inspirational Nature Ourselves
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
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
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
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Different Fools Love Mindset Wisdom
All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Absence Flower Sun Sweet Wake Up
Time glides with undiscover’d haste; The future but a length behind the past.
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Discover Future Glide Haste Length Past
Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Judgment People True
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.
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Hope Life Live Pleasure Run Thinking
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Heaven Praise Prayer Promise
Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Love Pain Pleasure
They say everything in the world is good for something.
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Goodness Karma World
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature’s eye.
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Eyes Heaven Nature

Love is love’s reward.

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