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Thomas Adams has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold…
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Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life is, but…
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Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise…
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He is the…
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for…
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Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the…
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Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury, the same…
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That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
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Alas! that the farthest and of all our thoughts should be the thought of our ends.
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but…
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Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard…
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We know there is a sun in heaven, yet we cannot see what matter it is made of, but perceive it only…
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The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.
— Joseph James Ettor
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Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its…
— Lucy Parsons
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
— Virginia Woolf
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When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me…
— H. L. Mencken
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The patient man is merry indeed.... The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but…
— Thomas Adams
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Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.
— Olympe de Gouges
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,…
— Victor Hugo
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The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
— Pierre Corneille
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There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling…
— Horace Mann
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
— Wendell Phillips
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I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to…
— David Walker
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When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes…
— Andres Segovia
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