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“All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.”

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And hast thou sworn on every slight pretence, Till perjuries are common as bad pence, While thousands, careless of the damning sin, Kiss the…

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No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.

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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.

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“The good we never miss we rarely prize”

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Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

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Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.

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But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is…

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“Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God"...”

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But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if…

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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

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“When we don't pray, we quit the fight. Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright. And Satan trembles when he sees. The weakest saint upon…

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But animated nature sweeter still, to soothe and satisfy the human ear.

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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.

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