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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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