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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.

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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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Perhaps thou gav’st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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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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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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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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There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.
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The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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A heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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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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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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