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Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they possess, and should show their wealth to be more in…
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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can…
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Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.
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Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned…
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No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do…
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Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they…
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I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I…
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Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God…
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It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest…
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Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.
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He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.
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What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of…
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How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which…
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For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to…
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Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.
— John Lyly
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A comely olde man as busie as a bee.
— John Lyly
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Comely was the town by the curving river that they dismantled in a year's time. Beautiful was Colleton in her last spring…
— Pat Conroy
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Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of…
— Joseph Hall
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A comely sight indeed it is to see, a world of blossoms on an apple tree.
— John Bunyan
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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley…
— Mark Twain
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My only grudge against nature was that I could not turn my Lolita inside out and apply voracious lips to her young…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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When we come to worship the God and Father of us all and to partake of the sacrament symbolizing the Atonement of…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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...for all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal...
— Herman Melville
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Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
— Soren Kierkegaard
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