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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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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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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Some people are more nice than wise.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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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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Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
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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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Bosom Eggs Fatal Laid Made Nest Pleasure Remorse Scorpions
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
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Address Addresses Little May Perhaps Smile Tears Wipe
Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian’s armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
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Cease Christian Fight Fighting Prayer Restrain

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