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

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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
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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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Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
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An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.
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[My kitten’s] gambols are not to be described, and would be incredible, if they could.
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Accomplishments have taken virtue’s place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.
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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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Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace; Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour;
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No traveler e’er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
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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 heretic, my dear sir, is a fellow who disagrees with you regarding something neither of you knows anything about.
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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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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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