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Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us even in our pains.

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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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All we behold is miracle.
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