I have a Father!
It needeth not that I should see His face,
When each new day brings token of His grace.
Who can deny the Power that brings to pass
The yearly miracle of springing grass?
Who can withhold allegiance, that sees
The harvest glory of the fruited trees?
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Confessing a fault makes half amends.
Denying one doubles it.
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Not to repent of a fault, is to justify it.
--_Pliny._
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Whoever thinks a faultless one to see
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er will be.
--_Pope._
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_Faults._--Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his
neighbors' faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.
--_Shakespeare._
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Better find one of our own faults,
Than ten
Of our neighbor's.
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