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It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to…
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Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour…
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They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions…
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Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career…
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The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual…
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Life, for all its agonies...is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing...and whatever is to come after it -- we shall…
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Only one hour in the normal day is more pleasurable than the hour spent in bed with a book before going to…
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Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.
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You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.
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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill…
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We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to…
— Rose Macaulay
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The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the…
— John Owen
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Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie…
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.
— John Owen
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Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
— John Owen
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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.
— John Owen
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Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of…
— John Owen
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Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that…
— John Owen
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The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
— John Owen
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The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh...The choicest believers,…
— John Owen
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Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence…
— Adolf Hitler
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If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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