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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.

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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
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ease Mean Modesty Please Press Remember Still
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,
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Devil God Honey Made Men Pride
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in
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Cheer Column Cup Each Evening Preach Steamy Welcome
Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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Authorship Genius Manner Sense Substitutes
Men deal with life as children with their play, Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
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Cats Children Deal Life Mena Misuse Plan Toy Way
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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Doctrine Hand Heart Life Man Pure Venerate
The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, “Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more.”
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Care Done Lying Most Night Safely Tomorrow Trouble
[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Cat Describe Fambol Incredible Kitten
God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs
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Moving Mysterious Perform Way Wonder
Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.
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Console Pain Pleasure String Vices Virtue
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust him for his grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.
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Behind Face Frowning Grace Hide Judge Lord Providence Sense
Heaven’s harmony is universal love.
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Harmony Heaven Love Religious Universal
A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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Atheism Dear Heretic Regard Something
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Attentive Head Knowledge Men Own Repeat Thought Widsom
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
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Bitter Bud Flower Sweet Taste
Far happier are the dead methinks than they who look for death and fear it every day.
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Day Death Every Happier Look
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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Courage Failure Move Moving Mysterious Perform
But oars alone can ne’er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
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Alone Heaven Lost Oar Prevail Toil
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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Blind God Interpreter Make Mysterious Vain Ways Work
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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Difficult Ease Happiness Life Pursuit
The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
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Alone Land Path Sadness Sorrow Unknown
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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Assurance Believe Even Happy Heard Make Petition Prayer Proof
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Absence Inspirational Motivational Proof Suicide
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
Tea – the cups that cheer but not inebriate.
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Cheer Cup Drinking Inebriate Tea

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