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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.

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Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The Spirit breathes upon the Word and brings the truth to sight.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch’d the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch’d within us, and the heart replies.
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We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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O Winter, ruler of the inverted year!
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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What we admire we praise; and when we praise, Advance it into notice, that its worth Acknowledged, others may admire it too.
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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What is there in the vale of lifeHalf so delightful as a wife;When friendship, love and peace combineTo stamp the marriage-bond divine?
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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