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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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Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock’d in the cradle of the western breeze.
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Hand Rock Spring Tree
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
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Ease Mean Modesty Please Press Remember Still
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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Friend Grant Loneliness Pas Retreat Solitude Sweet Whisper
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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Alast Best Blessing Enemy Forgiveness Friend Instance Life Neglect Remember
Still ending, and beginning still.
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Beginning End Life Still
The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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Away Darkest Day Hope Passed Tomorrow
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.
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Ceremony Fighting Prepare Shadow Truth
Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, ’tis being flayed alive.
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Alive Assume Being Flayed Habit Strive
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
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Depend Happiness Inspirational Nature Show Suppose Thing
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
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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Address Anxious Become Change Conscious Feed Gesture Grace Guilt Impressed Messenger Much Tender
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases.
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Creep Event Exactly Please Sort
Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
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Attentive Head Knowledge Men Own Repeat Thought Widsom
This fond attachment to the well-known place Whence first we started into life’s long race.
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Attachment Home Known Life Place Race Start
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
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Feet Make Prayer Promise Sweet Trial
Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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Globe Golden Griddle Truth

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