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Great offices will have great talents, and God gives to every man the virtue, temper, understanding, taste, that lifts him into life, and lets him fall just in the niche he was ordained to fill.

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Pain Pleasure Poet Poetic Poetry
Still ending, and beginning still.
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Beginning End Life Still
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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
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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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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Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Harmony Heaven Love Religious Universal
The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Distribute Hire Nurse Sick Sleep Snoring Sweetly Watch
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Hand Rock Spring Tree
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Ceremony Fighting Prepare Shadow Truth
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Both Fifty Litle No Other Purpose View World
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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