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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.

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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Away Darkest Day Hope Passed Tomorrow
The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.
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All we behold is miracle.
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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
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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Maintains its hold with such unfailing sway, We feel it e’en in age, and at our latest day.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Globe Golden Griddle Truth
Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
I am out of humanity’s reach.I must finish my journey alone,Never hear the sweet music of speech;I start at the sound of my own.
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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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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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Accustom Fall Flower Man Rain Solitude
Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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Built Church God Laugh Scorn
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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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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Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Cheer Cup Drinking Inebriate Tea
When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Amarantine Earth Flower Only Virtue
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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Acknowledge Admire Advance May Other Praise Worth
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Elegant Simplicity Warm
Remorse begets reform.
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Allow Beget Reform Remorse
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Devil God Honey Made Men Pride

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