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... turn traitor , and Fear unbar the gates . The valiant standeth as a rock , and the billows break upon him ; The timorous is a skiff unmoored , tost and mocked at by a ripple : The valiant holdeth fast to good , till evil wrench it from ...
... turn traitor , and Fear unbar the gates . The valiant standeth as a rock , and the billows break upon him ; The timorous is a skiff unmoored , tost and mocked at by a ripple : The valiant holdeth fast to good , till evil wrench it from ...
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... turn without thee , And thou shalt have raised a foe , where thou mightest have won a friend . Dints , shrewdly strown , mightily disturb the spirit , Where a bare - faced accusation would be too ridiculous for calumny : The sly ...
... turn without thee , And thou shalt have raised a foe , where thou mightest have won a friend . Dints , shrewdly strown , mightily disturb the spirit , Where a bare - faced accusation would be too ridiculous for calumny : The sly ...
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... turn a mill ; The wild electric flash , that could have kindled comets , May by the ductile wire give ease to an ailing child . For outward matter or event fashion not the character within , But each man , yielding or resisting ...
... turn a mill ; The wild electric flash , that could have kindled comets , May by the ductile wire give ease to an ailing child . For outward matter or event fashion not the character within , But each man , yielding or resisting ...
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... turn , those stationed elms crowd up within a yard ; Pace the lamp - lit streets of some sleeping city , The multitude of cressets shall seem one , in the false picture of perspective ; Even so , in sweet treachery , dealeth the aged ...
... turn , those stationed elms crowd up within a yard ; Pace the lamp - lit streets of some sleeping city , The multitude of cressets shall seem one , in the false picture of perspective ; Even so , in sweet treachery , dealeth the aged ...
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... turning of the wheel : And if , in the lottery of life , thou hast drawn a splendid prize , What foresight hadst thou , and skill ! yea , what enter- prize and wisdom ! But if it fall out against thee , and thou fail in thy perilous ...
... turning of the wheel : And if , in the lottery of life , thou hast drawn a splendid prize , What foresight hadst thou , and skill ! yea , what enter- prize and wisdom ! But if it fall out against thee , and thou fail in thy perilous ...
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Page 497 - Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?" Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.
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Page 498 - Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel ; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.
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