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What question can be here? Your own true heart
Must needs advise you of the only part:
That may be claim'd again which was but lent,
And should be yielded with no discontent,
Nor surely can we find herein a wrong,
That it was left us to enjoy it long.

— Richard Chenevix Trench The Lent Jewels; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.

As shadows attend substances, so words follow upon things.

Study of Words; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

It was Lazarus faith, not his poverty, which brought him into Abraham's bosom.

Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed,
Not all who fail have therefor worked in vain.
There is no failure for the good and brave.

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