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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold…
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Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise…
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Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the…
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but…
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Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
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Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but…
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for…
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When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable…
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Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.
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All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem…
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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
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Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have…
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Ah, but the servant waits, while the master baits.
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Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those…
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