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He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

— Owen Feltham Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Shall I speak truly what I now see below?
The World is all a carkass, smoak and vanity,
The shadow of a shadow, a play
And in one word, just Nothing.

I know, when they prove bad, they are a sort of the vilest creatures: yet still the same reason gives it: for, Optima corrupta pessima: the best things corrupted become the worst.

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