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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

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This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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And works his sovereign will. Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy’s door.
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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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The still small voice is wanted.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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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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Alas! if my best Friend, who laid down His life for me, were to remember all the instances in which I have neglected Him, and to plead them against me in judgment, where should I hide my guilty head in the day of recompense?
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Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.
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The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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And natural in gesture; much impress’d Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
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The kindest and the happiest pair Will find occasion to forbear; And something, every day they live, To pity, and perhaps forgive.
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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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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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