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Commonplaces
Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
Then shall Religion to America flee:
They have their times of Gospel even as we.
My God, thou dost prepare for them a way
By carrying first their gold from them away:
For gold and grace did never yet agree:
Religion always sides with poverty.
—George Herbert
"The Church Militant," from The Temple (c. 1633)
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