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Cotton Mather has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear…
• Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
• Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.
• That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.
• Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.
• If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among…
• A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.
• Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.
• I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse…
• Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having…
• Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!
• Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

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