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The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add read more
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
 The water owns a power Divine,
 And conscious blushes into wine;
  Its very nature changed displays
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 The water owns a power Divine,
 And conscious blushes into wine;
  Its very nature changed displays
   The power Divine that it obeys. 
Even miracles take a little time
Even miracles take a little time
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.
How awestriking. How sublime..that out of muck and mud and dirt and slime God makes lemons and God makes limes.
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
 What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach,
 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;
  And while it satisfies, it read more 
 What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach,
 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind;
  And while it satisfies, it censures too. 
 So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
 When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
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 So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown
 When judges have been babes; great floods have flown
  From simple sources, and great seas have dried
   When miracles have by the greatest been denied. 
 Man is the miracle in nature. God
 Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
  "There is a read more 
 Man is the miracle in nature. God
 Is the One Miracle to man. Behold,
  "There is a God," thou sayest. Thou sayest well:
   In that thou sayest all. To Be is more
    Of wonderful, than being, to have wrought,
     Or reigned, or rested.