"Few men can be said to have inimitable……" — Adam Clarke
"Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used."
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35 Quotes by Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke has 35 quotes on this site.
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man…
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As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor…
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts,…
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All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
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There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate…
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Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart,…
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity…
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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great…
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons…
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
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Nothing adventured, nothing attained
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether…
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Greatness is attained only by the thinking of great thoughts.
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
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