Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
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Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener, n.
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The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense the last was the light of reason And his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit.
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Art is man added to nature.
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They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.
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