Beggars invention and makes fancy lame.
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All zeal for a reform, that gives offenceTo peace and charity, is mere pretence.William Cowper
There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.
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When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'T is e'en as if an angel shook his wings.
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Perhaps thou gavst me, though unseen, a kiss Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.
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A business with a income at its heels, furnishes always oil for its own wheels
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Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.
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