An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
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“Place not thy amendment only in increasing thy devotion, but in bettering thy life. This is the damning hypocrisy of this age; that it slights all good morality, and spends its zeal in matters of ceremony, and a form of godliness, without the power of it.”
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