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Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
What one day gives us, another takes away from us.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my read more
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
The woman that deliberates is lost.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church
still.
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my read more
But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Idleness induces caprice.
Idleness induces caprice.
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.