"Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard,……" — Thomas Adams
"Ahab cast a covetous eye at Naboth's vineyard, David a lustful eye at Bathsheba. The eye is the pulse of the soul; as physicians judge of the heart by the pulse, so we by the eye; a rolling eye, a roving heart. The good eye keeps minute time, and strikes when it should; the lustful, crochet-time, and so puts all out of tune."
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39 Quotes by Thomas Adams
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be…
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Our mind is where our pleasure is, our heart is where our treasure is, our love is where our life…
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Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when…
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
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He that will be knighted must kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must…
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Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last;…
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Both in thy private sessions, and the universal assizes, thou shalt be sure of the same Judge, the same jury,…
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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…
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Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God.…
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His [Elijah] heart was beginning to give signs of alarm; he was enjoying being at this woman's side. Love could…
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Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals…
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As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.
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Sleep and I do not have a good relationship. We have never been good friends. I am constantly chasing sleep…
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Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not…
— Herman Melville
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Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
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And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
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So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he…
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Captain Ahab: I do not sleep, I die.
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Imagine having Ahab for a father, and Jezebel for a mother.Only God can help your future.
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Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured…
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