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... heart.—S. W. Beecher. If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is a pure human love.—N. P. Willis. Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm ...
... heart.—S. W. Beecher. If there is any thing that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of evil, it is a pure human love.—N. P. Willis. Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm ...
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... heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils.—This view makes them absolute and positive evils which admit of no remedy or relief.—If we view our troubles and trials aside from the ...
... heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils.—This view makes them absolute and positive evils which admit of no remedy or relief.—If we view our troubles and trials aside from the ...
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... heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?—Cowper. Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it.—If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to ...
... heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?—Cowper. Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it.—If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to ...
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... heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.—Quarles. We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them ...
... heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.—Quarles. We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them ...
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... heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory.—It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's ...
... heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. If virtue accompanies beauty it is the heart's paradise; if vice be associate with it, it is the soul's purgatory.—It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's ...
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