"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
"The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason."
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Source: Robert Lowry, William Howard Doane, Ira David Sankey (1877). “Welcome Tidings: A New Collection of Sacred Songs for the Sunday School”, p.153
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