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Thomas Watson

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[Wikipedia] Thomas John Watson Sr. was an American businessman who was the chairman and CEO of IBM. He oversaw the company's growth into an international force from 1914 to 1956. Watson developed IBM's management style and corporate culture from John Henry Patterson's training at NCR. He turned the company into

Quotes by Thomas Watson

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

Adversity

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“Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.”

Fish

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“Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

Bitter

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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

Computers

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Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.

Direct

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Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

Direct

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Our murmuring is the devil's music.

Christianity

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The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

Blessing

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“We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?”

Leadership

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Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

Christian inspirational

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This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not…

Crowns

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Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

Delight

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A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

Blessing

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Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

Bosoms

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“To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the…

Things God

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It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.

Cups

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“The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is…

Home

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“Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The…

Character

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“This judgment is on many, the earth swallows up their time, and thoughts, and discourse, they are buried twice; their hearts are…

Buried

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“Oh, Christian, if you are overspread with this fretting leprosy, you carry the man of sin about you, for you set yourself…

Christian

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The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them.…

Access

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God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so…

Adoption

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“Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to…

Kingdom of heaven

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“It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than…

Doctor

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Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement…

Age

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“Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: “God means my sins;” when it presseth…

Bible

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Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and…

Accounts

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Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to…

Animated

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“To obey God, is not so much our duty—as our privilege; his commands carry food in the mouth of them. He bids…

Obey

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It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did…

Absurd

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“Upon our turning to God, we have more restored to us in Christ—than ever was lost in Adam. God says to the…

Justice

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“A thousand prayers and praises and do not honor God so much—as the mortifying of one lust! "Does the Lord delight in…

Prayer

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“Keep a clear conscience. Contentment is the manna that is laid up in the ark of a good conscience: O take heed…

Clear conscience

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The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

Faithless

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First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

Boast

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Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

Adversity

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Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

Affliction

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It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

Anxiety

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The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

Christian growth

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What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of…

Affliction

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