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... truth concerns thee , What is nearest to thine eyes . Know thyself and thine ; cast from thee Idle dream and barren guess ; This the text of thy wise preaching , Reason's prophet , SOCRATES . Him in school of honest labour Nature reared ...
... truth concerns thee , What is nearest to thine eyes . Know thyself and thine ; cast from thee Idle dream and barren guess ; This the text of thy wise preaching , Reason's prophet , SOCRATES . Him in school of honest labour Nature reared ...
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... Truth to preach and souls to win . Not the lonely wisdom pleased him , Brooding o'er some nice conceit ; But where the many - mingling strife Of man with man made quick the street , There was he both taught and teacher ; In the market ...
... Truth to preach and souls to win . Not the lonely wisdom pleased him , Brooding o'er some nice conceit ; But where the many - mingling strife Of man with man made quick the street , There was he both taught and teacher ; In the market ...
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... truth abroad , Seeds that grow with faithful tendance Up to central truth in God . But not all might thole his teaching ; Weak eyes shrink when light is nigh , Many love the dear delusion That lends glory to a lie . ' Mid the throng of ...
... truth abroad , Seeds that grow with faithful tendance Up to central truth in God . But not all might thole his teaching ; Weak eyes shrink when light is nigh , Many love the dear delusion That lends glory to a lie . ' Mid the throng of ...
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... truth divinely strong . I will sing a mighty marvel , How the lordly Roman drew Fountain of new life pure - blooded From the mean unvalued Jew . 1 " In Klopstock's ' Messiah , ' the truths , the glorified facts being connected with more ...
... truth divinely strong . I will sing a mighty marvel , How the lordly Roman drew Fountain of new life pure - blooded From the mean unvalued Jew . 1 " In Klopstock's ' Messiah , ' the truths , the glorified facts being connected with more ...
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... truth and healing word . And he rose as one that riseth From long death , into a new Stretch of blissful life , with warmer Pulse of love and larger view . And he went into the desert , There with searching thought to pray O'er the ...
... truth and healing word . And he rose as one that riseth From long death , into a new Stretch of blissful life , with warmer Pulse of love and larger view . And he went into the desert , There with searching thought to pray O'er the ...
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