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God is much displeased That you take with unthankfulness His doing; In common, worldly things, ’tis called ungrateful, With dull unwillingness to repay a debt Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent; Much more to be thus opposite with Heaven, For it requires the debt it lent you.
God is much displeased That you take with unthankfulness His doing; In common, worldly things, ’tis called ungrateful, With dull unwillingness to repay a debt Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent; Much more to be thus opposite with Heaven, For it requires the debt it lent you.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Shakspere (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 598 · printed citation: Shakspere · subject: THANKFULNESS
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