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Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

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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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Fall Giving Great Men Office Talent
Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons to love it, too.
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Love Mercy Son Therefore
The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,
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Unless a love of virtue light the flame,
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Air Flame Light Love Unless
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another’s pain.
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
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Devil Knee Prayer Saint Trembles Weakness
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Greatly Pity Rum Slavery Sugar
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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Atheist Base Bear Cross Earth Easter Only Slave
Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.
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Alone Flower Luster Perfume Weed Wisdom
While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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Depend Eternal Friend Hardly Single Thing Truth
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Distribute Hire Nurse Sick Sleep Snoring Sweetly Watch
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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Comes Happiness Only Ourselves Purpose Squandering
Grief is itself a medicine.
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Death Grief Itself Medicine Pain

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