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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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Long habit so reconciles us to almost any thing, that the grossest improprieties cease to strike us when they once make a part of the common course of action.
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Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.
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Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.
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Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.
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Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.
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The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compelled to starve at an unreal feast: A spark, which upward tends by nature's force: A stream diverted from its parent source A drop dissever'd from the boundless sea A moment, parted from eternity A pilgrim panting for the rest to come An exile, anxious for his native home.
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Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.
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If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.
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Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.
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To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
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The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.
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it may be in morals as it is in optics, the eye and the object may come too close to each other, to answer the end of vision. There are certain faults which press too near our self-love to be even perceptible to us.
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O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
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Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
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The keen spirit Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes!
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