No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost. - John Dryden

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Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

John Dryden

No government has ever been, or can ever be, wherein time-servers and blockheads will not be uppermost.

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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.

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Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

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The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.

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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.

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Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

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