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Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from the earth, and things on the earth, will be ministers of God to do us good. Only let there be God within us, and then every thing outside us will become a godlike help.
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It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.
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This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
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It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life.
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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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William Mountford
Born:
May 31, 1816
Died:
April 20, 1885
(aged 68)
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