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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in…
— William Gurnall
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Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
— John Angell James
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so!…
— John Owen
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We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of…
— J C Ryle
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It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
— Laurence Sterne
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
— Daniel Boone
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or…
— Euripides
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Riches should be admitted into our houses, but not into our hearts; we may take them into our possession, but not into…
— Pierre Charron
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We spend so much time trying to put send to death that we don't spend enough time striving to know God deeply,…
— Matt Chandler
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COMMEMORATION Blessed art Thou, O Lord who didst bring forth of water moving creatures that have life, and whales, and winged fowls:…
— Lancelot Andrewes
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