The Result of Fortune:—The generality of men sink in virtue as they rise in fortune.
—Sir J. Beaumont.
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Don't live in hope with your arms folded. Fortune smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulders to the wheel.
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Whil'st fortun'd favour'd; friends, you smil'd on me:
But, when she fled, a friend I could not see.
—Burton.
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GOD IN THE HEART.
Collins, the freethinker, met a plain countryman going to church. He asked him where he was going. "To church sir." "What to do there?" "To worship God." "Pray, whether is your God a great or little God?" "He is both, sir." "How can He be both?" "He is so great that the heaven of heavens cannot contain Him, and so little that He can dwell in my heart." Collins declared that this simple answer had an effect upon his mind such as all the volumes which learned men had written against him had not.