I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
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Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another’s woe.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
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And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
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And tears are heard within the harp I touch.
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The greater I am, the greater shall be my efforts.
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Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
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Love is the crowning grace of humanity.
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Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?
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How quick the old woe follows a little bliss!
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While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands.
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He loves but lightly who his love can tell.
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I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.
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