Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
JOHN DRYDEN
And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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All flowers will droop in the absence of the sun that waked their sweets.
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Sculptors are obliged to follow the manners of the painters, and to make many ample folds, which are unsufferable hardness, and more like a rock than a natural garment.
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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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Secret guilt is by silence revealed.
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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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We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.
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Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
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It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, can rule nothing, but is ruled by prudence.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure.
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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.
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Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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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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Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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All empire is no more than power in trust.
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