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Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

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A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
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A fool must now and then be right, by chance
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
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They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
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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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Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection.
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To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
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It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast.
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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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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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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
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The still small voice is wanted.
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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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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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The only amarantine flower on earth Is virtue.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
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Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Manner is all in all, whate’er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
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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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He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
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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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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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