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Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you…
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Go where thou wilt, thou canst not go out of thy Father's ground.
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Faith is the soul going out of itself for all its wants.
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What an honourable thing is it to be fishers of men! How great an honour shouldst thou esteem it, to be a…
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O what hardness of heart mayst thou see in every corner whither thou goest, and where thou preachest, most part being as…
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Good education is not regeneration. Education may chain up men's lusts, but cannot change their hearts.
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The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in…
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If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.
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In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its…
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It is our duty to look to God's commands, and not to His decrees; to our own duty, and not to His…
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Has God decreed all things that come to pass? Then there is nothing that falls out by chance, nor are we to…
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Again, the glory of one attribute is more seen in one work than in another: in some things there is more of…
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Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature...…
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As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality,…
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
— Seneca the Younger
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his…
— George Edward Woodberry
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We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the…
— Karl Popper
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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