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title: "2 Complete Pulpit Quotes by 1 author"
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> [The pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bearthe earliest brunt.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/the-pulpit-is-ever-this-earth-s-foremost-part-all-the-rest-comes-in/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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> [The world's a ship on its voyage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/the-world-s-a-ship-on-its-voyage-out-and-not-a-voyage-complete-and/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

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