Date: 1749
"Happy soul, as silver tried, / Silver seven times purified, / Love hath broke the rock of stone, / All thy hardness melted down"
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Date: 1749
"Yes; our soul the iron enters, / Sin is perfect misery"
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Date: 1749
"Though I have steel'd my stubborn heart"
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Date: 1749
"From all idolatrous excess, / From earthly dross refine, / And on my simple heart impress / The character Divine"
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Date: Tuesday, August 28, 1750
"Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away."
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Date: 1754
"The mind of man does often what princes and states have done. It gives a currency to brass and copper coined in the several philosophical and theological mints, and raises the value of gold and silver above that of their true standard."
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Date: 1759
"Our suffering souls like gold refine, / And whiten us in blood Divine."
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Date: 1759
"Their grief, however, like their joy, was transient; every thing floated in their mind unconnected with the past or future, so that one desire easily gave way to another, as a second stone cast into the water effaces and confounds the circles of the first."
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Date: 1762
"Yet with the mind of Jesus steel'd / He cannot to entreaties yield"
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Date: 1762
"Try me then, and try me still / In the furnace of distress, / … I shall at last come forth as gold."
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