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• In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
• Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness…
• Love never reasons, but profusely gives; it gives like a thoughtless prodigal its all, and then trembles least it has done to…
• One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to…
• In men this blunder still you find; all think their little set mankind.
• In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?
• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill…
• There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever…
• Man can see his reflection in water only when he bends down close to it, and the heart of man, too, must…
• Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known,…
• How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able…
• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

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