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I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.

— Ralph Venning Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

He accounts himself lesse then the least of all mercies; and yet he looks on the greatest as his due.

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