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Magnalia Christi Americana (1702)
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Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
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Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
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You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
February 12, 1663
Died:
February 13, 1728
(aged 65)
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