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learn it by reason and experience
Afterward will be exhibited the true and right method for securing this end, so far as we can learn it by reason and experience without a revelation .
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

long its brief repose Are ended
If what I dread be nigh, My life, its trials long, its brief repose Are ended all.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

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