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... thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation; for many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of calamity. —Jeremy Taylor. It has done ...
... thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation; for many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of calamity. —Jeremy Taylor. It has done ...
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... thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.—Tupper. To tremble before anticipated evils, is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.—Goethe. We part more easily with what we possess than with our expectations of ...
... thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling.—Tupper. To tremble before anticipated evils, is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.—Goethe. We part more easily with what we possess than with our expectations of ...
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... thou art if thou desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.— Quarles. There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to ...
... thou art if thou desire to attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.— Quarles. There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to ...
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... thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art.— Goethe. If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are estimable.—Bruyere. Evil communications corrupt good manners.—Menander. We gain nothing by being ...
... thou art found, and I will tell thee who thou art.— Goethe. If you wish to be held in esteem, you must associate only with those who are estimable.—Bruyere. Evil communications corrupt good manners.—Menander. We gain nothing by being ...
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... thou chaste as ice, and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. —Shakespeare. Backwounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes.—Shakespeare. Calumniators have neither good.
... thou chaste as ice, and pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. —Shakespeare. Backwounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes.—Shakespeare. Calumniators have neither good.
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