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Men Quotes by Nathanael Emmons
- One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among…
- Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
- Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their…
- There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
- The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.
- I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
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