Date: 1759
"The way to be happy is to live according to nature, in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally impressed; which is not written on it by precept, but engraven by destiny, not instilled by education, but infused at our nativity."
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Date: September 1, 1759.
" Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away, and which new images are striving to obliterate."
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Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find"
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Date: 1762
"Lord, with Thy love's acutest dart / Engrave Thy name upon my heart."
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Date: 1762
"Engraven on my heart and mind, / O that I could Thy precepts find, / Begotten from above"
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Date: 1762
"His Spirit send into our hearts, / Engraving on our inward parts / The living law of holiest love"
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Date: 1762
" I wait the reconciling kiss, / Which seals in purity and peace / My pardon on my heart."
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Date: 1762
" Peace by the Spirit's signet seal'd / On every faithful heart"
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Date: 1762
"With patience they the fire endure, / And thus express the Spirit's seal, / And witness thus, their hearts are pure."
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