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“The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.”

People World Spirit Turns Morning Masters Casts Dew Early Morning Sod

Book:Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

Source: Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns

“Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.”

Spirit Hours Ready Victory Casts Ill Suits Triumph Weary Propose Comforter

Author:Gelett Burgess

“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.”

Ifs Looks Soul Body Spirit Desire Evil Imagination Pleasure Lord Habit Illusion Overcoming Casts Commit Vain Take Me Pollution Spares Disregard Hurtful Unlawful Evil Spirits

Author:Lancelot Andrewes

“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”

Source: Journal of the convention of the state of Mississippi, and the act calling the same: with the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

“Human nature is full of riddles; . . . one of those riddles is: how is it that people who have been crushed by the sheer weight of slavery and cast to the bottom of the pit can nevertheless find strength in themselves to rise up and free themselves first in spirit and then in body while those who soar unhampered over the peaks of freedom suddenly lose the taste of freedom, lose the will to defend it, and, hopelessly confused and lost, almost begin to crave slavery?'”

“Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.”

Spirit Poverty Industry Despair Casts Generous Resolution Cows Generous Spirit

Author:Joseph Addison

“Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.”

Spirit Sleep Sin Casts Ships Secure Tempest Jonah Vexation

Author:Frederic Reynolds