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I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in…
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As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their…
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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom…
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First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.
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Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to…
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for…
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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any…
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The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts…
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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be…
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are…
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As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it…
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How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered!…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
— Ben Jonson
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How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.
— Blaise Pascal
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How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals.
— Blaise Pascal
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How vain is painting, which is admired for reproducing the likeness of things whose originals are not admired.
— Blaise Pascal
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How vain, without the merit, is the name.
— Homer
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
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To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things,…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born,…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter…
— David Mitchell
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