More than heart could wish. _Ps._ LXXIII., 7

When he tackles a job he tackles it vigorously

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Why not keep the same steadfast eye on realities

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I am setting forth the rationale of things

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I am trying to exhort you to an unwavering belief

I want to press the thought with all the earnestness I have

Would that I could persuade some who are halting between two opinions

I was shown how erroneous was my preconception

We shall make a great mistake if we allow an easy optimism to encourage the belief that——

He is laboring under the false notion that——

He would kill the goose that lays the golden egg

I always entertained the very highest regard for——

I was full of admiration for the way in which——

He is winning golden opinions from all sides

If I were a Pagan I would raise altars to him

The futility of such double-dealing was seen in——

He is infected with the disease of indirection

A responsibility he is in no way prepared to assume

The trick of turning a blind eye on the shortcomings of——

I feel myself forced to feign a particular interest in——

I am thankful to be furnished with so good a pretense

He has apparently lost his grip by wobbling

I haven’t sufficient information to pass judgment upon it

It is hardly the language of strict propriety

I have such lamentable proofs every day before my eyes of the——

I have no less authority for the statement than——

He has dealings with the prince of darkness

An inspiration coming otherwheres than from heaven

From the harshest brutality to the lowest shade of petty meanness

In wanton defiance of every law of God and man

He made as much of his facts as they would carry

He sees a glow-worm and thinks it a conflagration

It calls for talents of rather an unusual order

He hopes to ride safely into the harbor of——

The net effort seems to warrant the hope that——

We are enabled to look beyond the mists which fill the valley

In the happy and beautiful millennial time when——

It is the expression of a glorious fact that——

Of value to those who have eyes to see its significance

He is utterly heedless of the teachings of experience

This has been convincingly demonstrated in the past

Proof has been furnished with painful frequency

A testimony which is conclusive to all fair-minded men

He is headed straight for the auctioneer’s block