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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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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.
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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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We do not really know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. Therefore we should be glad that we can be forgiven by others. It is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.
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Rage is for little wrongs despair is dumb.
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.
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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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