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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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No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once…
— Hannah Arendt
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility…
— Irving Babbitt
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty,…
— Frederic Bastiat
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists…
— Kate Adie
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When I get on stage, my first goal is not to show my expertise, but on the contrary, to give a bit…
— Andrea Bocelli
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Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can…
— Paul Kurtz
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On the contrary, it might even be a projection of what the truth is of the Bush Administration's complacency and ineptitude on…
— Sidney Blumenthal
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On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language…
— Wim Wenders
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