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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.

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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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Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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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England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The man to solitude accustom’d long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease,
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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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