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"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."

"If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a "wandering to find home", why should we not look forward to the arrival. There are, aren't there, only three things we can do about death: to desire it, to fear it, or to ignore it. The third alternative, which is the one the modern world calls "healthy" is surely the most uneasy and precarious of all."

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
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"And while God had work for Paul, he found him friends both in court and prison. Let persecutors send saints to prison, God can provide a keeper for their turn."

"We have peace with God as soon as we believe, but not always with ourselves. The pardon may be past the prince's hand and seal, and yet not put into the prisoner's hand."

"It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves."

"Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer."
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