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Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

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Hannah More
Age: 88 †
Born: 1745
Born: February 2
Died: 1833
Died: September 7
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Essayist
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Earnestness
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Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.
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we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.
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Commending a right thing is a cheap substitute for doing it, with which we are too apt to satisfy ourselves.
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Strange! that what is enjoyed without pleasure cannot be discontinued without pain!
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Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.
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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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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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