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It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!
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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest.
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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
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The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
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Sweet is the breath of praise when given by those whose own high merit claims the praise they give.
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Affliction is the school in which great virtues are acquired, in which great characters are formed.
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A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.
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Yes, thou art ever present, power divine not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth, in want, in freedom, or in chains, in dungeons or on thrones, the faithful find thee.
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