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

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
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
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Bold Goodness Starve
Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Grace Strength
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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Beginning Growth Small
A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart’s ease he liv’d; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.
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Himself Man Paradise Sin Sorrow Woman
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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Race Run Swift Time
All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Familiar Lose Object View
Let Fortune empty her whole quiver on me, I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more; Fate was not mine, nor am I Fate’s: Souls know no conquerors.
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Empty Enough Fortune Myself Soul
None but the brave deserve the fair.
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Brave Deserve Fair
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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Grace Known Order Place
An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Benefit Fate Pleasure Relate Sorrow Time
O freedom, first delight of human kind!
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Delight Freedom Human Kind
Courage from hearts and not from numbers grows.
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Courage Growth Heart
Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own.
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Enemy Forgiveness Greatness Injury Power Soul Time
For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
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Art Miss Mistake Nature

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