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Damnation Quote by James Hogg

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.” quote by James Hogg — Download Open image

“Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.”

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He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds…

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The daisy is fair, the day-lily rare, The bud o' the rose as sweet as it's bonnie.

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“The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction”

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The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had…

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O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!

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“Will you no come back again? Better loved you’ll never be, And will you no come back again?”

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If a body could just find oot the exac' proper proportion and quantity that ought to be drunk every day, and keep to that,…

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A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he…

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Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

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It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive…

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“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on a level…

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“…he knew no other pleasure but what consisted in opposition.”

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