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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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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his…
— Anne Bronte
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I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to…
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Our dreams disturb us because they refuse to pander to our fondest notions of ourselves. The closer one looks, the more they…
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Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You must fight for it, strive for it, and insist upon it.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable…
— Unknown Author
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as…
— John Berger
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I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For…
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
— Maya Angelou
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The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…
— Gene Wolfe
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You’re walking down life’s road, society’s foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can’t get from under that…
— Odetta
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a…
— Andrew Johnson
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