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While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine…
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I believe that where the love of God is perfected and the true spirit of government watchfully attended to, a tenderness toward…
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All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter,…
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Now I find that in pure obedience the mind learns contentment, in appearing weak and foolish to the wisdom which is of…
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There is a principle which is pure, placed in the human mind, which in different places and ages hath had different names.…
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To Turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives.
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My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to…
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If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions…
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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
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The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking.
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To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to…
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The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
— Hippocrates
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we…
— John Stuart Mill
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I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
— John Gresham Machen
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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so…
— Augustus William Hare
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