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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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Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa around, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn
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Around Cheer Close Fall Fire Shutter Sofa Stir
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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Absence Inspirational Motivational Proof Suicide
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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Ecstasy Elegant Simplicity Warm
England with all thy faults, I love thee still– My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
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Country Fault Love May Mind Still
Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.
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Cole Devil God Made Pit Pride
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
We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure, nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.
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Danger More never Ourselves Reality Secure Thinking
War’s a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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Game King Ply Subject War Wise
Time, as he passes us, has a dove’s wing, Unsoil’d, and swift, and of a silken sound.
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Pass Sound Swift Time Unsound Wing
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
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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Alone Door Every Forsaken Hera Lion Loneliness Mercy One Shut
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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When nations are to perish in their sins, ’tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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Begin Church Leprosy Nation Perish Sin
The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.
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Earth Flower Inspirational Treasure Truth
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
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Gather Honey Lead Truth Weed Wisdom

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