"For a beggar to live at court is……" — William Gurnall
"For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage."
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William Gurnall
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97 Quotes by William Gurnall
William Gurnall has 97 quotes on this site.
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If thou beest ever so exact in thy morals, and not a worshiper of God, then thou art an atheist.
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Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken…
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
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Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their…
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Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so…
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but…
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Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are…
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Job's friends chose the right time to visit him, but took not the right course of improving their visit; had…
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not…
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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God…
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Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by…
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God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.
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More Beggar Quotes
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Do we approach God from a beggar's perspective or as His cherished child? If we have any difficulty seeing Him…
— David Jeremiah
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Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? "He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it." Again…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
— Karl Kraus
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have…
— John G. Lake
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Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And…
— William Shakespeare
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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge,…
— Mason Cooley
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The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our…
— Mary McCarthy
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A drunkard is the annoyance of modesty, the trouble of civility, the spoil of wealth, the distraction of reason. He…
— Thomas Adams
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Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which…
— Andre Gide
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the…
— Anzia Yezierska
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Every time you think of doing some charity, you think there is some beggar to take your charity. If you…
— Swami Vivekananda
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