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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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While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
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I venerate the man whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure, whose doctrine and whose life, Coincident, exhibit lucid proof That he is honest in the sacred cause.
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All we behold is miracle.
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The nurse sleeps sweetly, hired to watch the sick, / whom, snoring, she disturbs.
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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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…So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
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The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.
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To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.
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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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