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Men Quotes by Thomas Adams
- Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same witnesses, the same…
- That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
- The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but the lower side…
- A man may be so bold of his predestination, that he forget his conversation.
- His father was no man's friend but his own, and he is no man's for else.
- The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will…
- Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the…
- No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.
- Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his…
- The covetous man pines in plenty, like Tantalus up to the chin in water, and yet thirsty.
- The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing…
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