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Fanaticism, the false fire of an overheated mind.


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How various his employments whom the world Calls idle; and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too!



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God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.



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