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“Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.”

“Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught”

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“Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.”

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— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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