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Of the systems above us, angelic and seraphic, we know little; but we see one law, simple, efficient, and comprehensive as that of gravitation,— the law of love,— extending its sway over the whole of God's dominions, living where He lives, embracing every moral movement in its universal authority, and producing the same harmony, where it is obeyed as we observe in the movements of nature.

— Mark Hopkins Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity.

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