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Lovely flowers are the smiles of god's goodness.
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I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves…
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Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.
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Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.
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Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
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If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across…
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There are four things that we ought to do with the Word of God - admit it as the Word of God,…
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No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution,…
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Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though…
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God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
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It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
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Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to…
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain…
— Sam Houston
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Bourgeois patriotism, as I view it, is only a very shabby, very narrow, very mercenary, and deeply antihuman passion, having for its…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Nature will not be conquered, but gives herself freely to her true lover - to him who revels with her, bathes in…
— John Burroughs
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A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.
— Joseph Pulitzer
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I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a…
— Maureen O'Hara
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But I think what we're coming to grips with is the fact that we actually have a mercenary Army, and it doesn't…
— Eleanor Clift
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That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own…
— George Washington
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Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire.
— C.S. Lewis
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I wandered the earth a mercenary, daring the gods to kill me but surviving because part of me was already dead.
— Barry Eisler
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Inspired by the purse rather than the soul, the mercenary side fairly screams in many of the works put out by every…
— Alma Gluck
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