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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest 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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Corruption Faith Freedom Need Scripture Sufficient
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.
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Himself Scene
Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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Act Honor Love Passion
Fowls, by winter forced, forsake the floods, and wing their hasty flight to happier lands.
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Force Happiness Land Winter
Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.
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Elegant Flower Heaven Western
For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.
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Happiness Kind Man Sadness
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature
Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Divine Faculty Force God Kind Man Philosophy
Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Hate Love Politics
No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.
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Block Government Time
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
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
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
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Himself Pearl Search
A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth.
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Cheating Man Passion Reason Truth
Here lies my wife: here let her lie! Now she’s at rest, and so am I.
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Lying Myself Wife

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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