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When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).

— James Montgomery Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Distinct as the billows, yet one as the sea.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

'T is not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to die.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Hymns should have unity,graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts,a conscious progress,a sense of completeness..and be easily understood.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed,—
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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