Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the … - Joanna Baillie

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Women are really much nicer than men: No wonder we like them.

Joanna Baillie

Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base; Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence, Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh When morning shines upon it.

Like, Morning, Pride, Shines, Shining

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Me care for te laws when te laws care for me.

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I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

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Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!

Earth, Hem, Meddling, Send, Speech, Thou

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

Blessing, Bring, Climb, Deepest, Men, Prayer

The plainest case in many words entangling.

Case, Cases, Entangling, Plainest, Words

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Man is the same today that he has always been. He is a rebel against God. He may, in some generations, hide his rebellion a little more carefully than at other times, but there is no change in his heart. The men who builded the city against God back in the days of Babylon had the same hatred as that which possessed the men who nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to the cross.

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