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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Doctrine Grace Language Men Plain Simple Sincere
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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Egg Fatal Laid Pleasure Regret Remorse
Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Another Detect Hunting Owe Pain Sport
The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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Begin Breathe Sight Spirit Upon World
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Bear Fatigue Indolent Insupportable Poor Rich Think Thinking Weak
To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Absence Death Despair Frustrate Love Miss Missing Severer
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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Nice People Some Wisdom Wise
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Begin Church Leprosy Nation Perish Sin
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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Color Enforce Fellow Find Guilty Power Skin Slavery Wrong

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