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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

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
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject
Deathless laurel is the victor’s due.
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Death Due
Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Fake Happiness Thinking Trust
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
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.
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Bitter Poem Satire
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
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Ourselves Photograph Thinking Word
So the false spider, when her nets are spread, deep ambushed in her silent den does lie.
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Fake Lying Silence
Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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Freedom Subject Thrive
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings.
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Fake King Necessary Ruin True
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections.
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Affection Goodness Grace Principal
And plenty makes us poor.
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Poor
Virtue is her own reward.
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One Liner Reward Virtue
Few know the use of life before ’tis past.
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Life Past
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought.
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Brought Impossible Need Perfection

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