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  • Excess, before the all-bounteous King, who showered640

    Paradise Lost: The Fifth Book 1909

  • Some of you were for this world, and some for the next. 47 Then, in order to make trial of you, He turned you to flight from them, –yet hath He now forgiven you; for all-bounteous is God to the faithful–

    The Koran (Al-Qur'an) 1854

  • Thanks to the mysterious all-bounteous Guide of men, and to you my true Brother, far over the sea!

    The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • We bring faculties into the world with us fresh from the hands of the all-bounteous giver; they are not yet moulded to a senseless routine; they are not yet corrupted by the ill lessons of effrontery, impudence and vice.

    Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831

  • The fated arrow of the all-bounteous Archer cast him down.

    Antar : 1820

  • Almighty and all-bounteous, we are weak and dependent; hence prayer and every other sort of devotion.

    The Letters of Robert Burns Robert Burns 1777

  • Excess, before the all-bounteous King, who showered

    Paradise Lost John Milton 1641

  • What greater good can man pofliefs Than he, to whom all-bounteous Heaven,

    The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

  • O virtuous pride I e'er may the means be to fuch fouls dcny'd, xecutors of Heaven's all-bounteous will,

    The Works of the English Poets 1779

  • “endued with mighty valor” will be raised up in Kirmán who will make mention of Him; and finally, His magnanimous assurance to a perfidious brother who had afflicted Him with such anguish, that an “ever-forgiving, all-bounteous” God would forgive him his iniquities were he only to repent — all these further enrich the contents of a Book designated by its

    God Passes By 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

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