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That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
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Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching,…
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The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a…
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Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the…
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Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it…
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If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.
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Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were…
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Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do…
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Turn in upon yourselves, get into your closets, and now resolve to dwell there. You have been strangers to this work too…
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If you neglect to instruct children in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of…
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How often has providence convinced its observers, upon a sober recollection of the events of their lives, that if the Lord had…
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but…
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Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror…
— Mary Oliver
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People want to buy cheap and sell dear; this by itself makes them countertrend. But the notion of cheapness or dearness must…
— William Eckhardt
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
— Thomas Paine
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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how…
— Thomas Paine
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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the…
— Toni Morrison
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only…
— Thomas Paine
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only…
— Thomas Paine
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common…
— Thomas Jefferson
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