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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.

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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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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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Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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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. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
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God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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The proud are ever most provoked by pride.
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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