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MULTUM IN PARVO:

Thoughts for every Day in the Year.

SELECTED FROM THE WRITINGS OF SPIRITUALLY
MINDED PERSONS.

BY THE

AUTHOR OF "VISITING MY RELATIONS."

"To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is
life and peace."-ROMANS viii. 6.

WILLIAMS AND NORGATE,

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AND 20, SOUTH FREDERICK STREET, EDINBURGH.

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THIS

spiritual writers was printed some years since for private and gratuitous distribution. The edition, being a small one, has long been exhausted; and many inquiries having been made as to where the little book could be procured, it seemed desirable that it should, by publication, be placed within reach of those who might wish to possess it.

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THE AUTHOR OF

VISITING MY RELATIONS."

MULTUM IN PARVO.

January.

I. To die is to begin to live.
It is to end an old, stale,
Weary work, and to commence
A newer and a better.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

Is not death, when freely chosen and prepared for, the most solemn and beautiful thing to which life can aspire?

NIEBUHR.

2. O friend, never strike sail to a fear. Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas. I see not any road of peace which a man can walk, but to take counsel of his own bosom. Let him quit too much

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