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"There is nothing that God hath established in a constant course of nature, and which therefore is done every day, but would seem a Miracle, and exercise our admiration, if it were done but once."
"Who are a little wise the best fools be."
"All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another"
"...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die."
"Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet."
"The sun must not set upon anger, much less will I let the sun set upon the anger of God towards me."
"And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?"
"Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights upon his Bible; so without that, without humility, no man shall hear God speak to his soul, though he hear three two-hour sermons every day."
"To a large degree, since the beginning of time, charisma or the lack of it has impacted upon those in quest of acclaim. As media expands, this has become ever more vital. Thus, demeanor if unappealing, can defeat one's likelihood of success, causing the death of prospects whilst they are still embryonic."
"If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two, Thy soul the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if the other do."
"Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art."
"Friends are ourselves."
"Festive alcohol sometimes leads to an excess of honesty."
"Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!"
"Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles."
"Without outward declarations, who can conclude an inward love?"
"Nature hath no goal though she hath law."
"Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life."
"Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory."
"If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."