'You are old, Father William,' the young man cried, 'The few locks which are left you are gray You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man, Now tell me the reason I pray.'
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.Robert Southey
Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times.
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He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility And he owned with a grin That his favourite sin Is pride that apes humility.
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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
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Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things in short whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you however innocent it may be in itself.
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