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Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.

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When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

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Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

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Nature is content with little; grace with less; but lust with nothing.

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The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.

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There are remains of great and good men, which, like this mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by the survivors, their sayings, their writings, their examples, that, as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in the benefit of them.

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Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

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What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.

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Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.

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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

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A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance.

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Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

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Better to get up late and be wide awake then, than to get up early and be asleep all day.

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Blushing is the colour of virtue.

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Brotherly love is the badge of Christ's disciples.

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It is better to get wisdom than gold. Gold is another's, wisdom is our own; gold is for the body and time, wisdom for the soul and eternity.

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If therefore our houses be houses of the Lord, we shall for that reason love home, reckoning our daily devotion the sweetest of our daily delights, and our family worship the most valuable of our family comforts. This will sanctify to us all the conveniences of our houses, and reconcile us to the inconveniences of it.

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The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it.

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A man that is endued with the powers of reason, by which he is capable of knowing, serving, glorifying, and enjoying his Maker, and yet lives without God in the world, is certainly the most despicable and the most miserable animal under the sun.

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The better day, the worse deed.

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