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Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.

Robert Herrick
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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.

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When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees; Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Ha…

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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.

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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

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Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

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Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the d…

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