Quote #23

'Faith mountains move' I hear: I see the practice of the world unheed The foolish vaunt, the blatant boast that serves our vanity to feed. 'Faith stands unmoved'; and why? Because man's silly fancies still remain, And will remain till wiser man the day-dreams of his youth disdain.

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