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To mercy, pity, peace and love all pray in their distress, and to these virtues of delight return their thankfulness. For mercy pity peace and love is god our father dear. And mercy pity peace and love is man his child and care. Then every man of every clime that prays in his distress prays to the human form divine: love mercy pity peace. And all must love the human form in heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where mercy, love and pity dwell there god is dwelling too.
Let not the reader imagine, however, that the principal interest of this Tale is drawn from so gloomy a topic as famine. The author trusts that the workings of those passions and feelings which usually agitate human life, and constitute the character of those who act in it, will be found to constitute its chief attraction.
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He comes, the herald of a noisy world, with spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks; news from all nations lumbering at his back.
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E'vn in the stifling bosom of the town, a garden, in which nothing thrives, has charms that soothes the rich possessor; much consol'd, that here and there some sprigs of mournful mint, or nightshade, or valerian, grace the well he cultivates.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you’re full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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Wilhelm von Humboldt, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt
Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn’t like.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
You can't break a man that don't borrow; he may not have anything, but Boy! he can look the World in the face and say, I don't owe you Birds a nickel. You will say, (if everyone stops borrowing) what will all the Bankers do? I don't care what they do. Let 'em go to work, if there is any job any of them could earn a living at. Banking and After-Dinner Speaking are two of the most Non-essential industries we have in this country. I am ready to reform if they are.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
There’s the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign dealings are an open book. Generally a check book.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
There is people so excited over this election that they think the President has something to do with running this country.
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Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
Demon or bird! (said the boy’s soul). Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? or is it mostly to me? For I, that was a child, my tongue’s use sleeping, now I have heard you, now in a moment I know what I am for—I awake, and already a thousand singers—a thousand songs, clearer, louder and more sorrowful than yours, a thousand warbling echoes have started to life within me, never to die.O you singer, solitary, singing by yourself—projecting me; O solitary me, listening—nevermore shall I cease perpetuating you; never more shall I escape, never more the reverberations, never more the cries of unsatisfied love be absent from me, never again leave me to be the peaceful child I was before what there, in the night, by the sea, under the yellow and sagging moon, the messenger there arous’d—the fire, the sweet hell within, the unknown want, the destiny of me.
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The new worship concerns the construction and practices of neighborliness of the most elemental kind. The new worship looks advantage and disadvantage square in the face, and urges economic gestures that bind haves and have-nots together. The accent is upon praxis, thus echoing the remarkable statement of Jeremiah: Are you a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? says the LORD. Jer 22:15–16 Knowledge of God is acknowledgment...
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