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A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of heaven and earth?

Jonathan Edwards

The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners

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Man

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Jonathan Edwards

Source

The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners

Medium

Sermon

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1734 1730s 18th century

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Citation

Edwards, Jonathan. The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners. 1734.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame,
When once it is within thee.

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Topic

Drinking alcohol

Author

George Herbert

Source

The Church-Porch The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Herbert, George. "The Church-Porch." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, st. 5.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "The Church-Porch." The Complete Poetry, edited by John Drury and Victoria Moul. Penguin Classics, 2015, st. 5.

No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

Jeremy Taylor

The House of Feasting

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Topic

Getting drunk Drinking alcohol

Speaker

Jeremy Taylor

Source

The House of Feasting

Language

English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

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Citation

Taylor, Jeremy. "The House of Feasting." c. 1653, Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. Sermon.

When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Isaac Watts

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

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Topic

Salvation

Author

Isaac Watts

Source

When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1707 1700s 18th century

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Watts, Isaac. "Crucifixion to the World, by the Cross of Christ." Hymns and Spiritual Songs. 1707, I. 1.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Small town life Cities Rural vs. urban

Author

Charles Caleb Colton

Source

Lacon

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert

Outlandish Proverbs

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Little things make a big difference

Author

George Herbert

Source

Outlandish Proverbs

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 495.

Time, like an ever-rolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.

Isaac Watts

Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

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Effects of time Time

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Isaac Watts

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Our God, Our Help in Ages Past

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1719 1710s 18th century

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Citation

Watts, Isaac. "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past." The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: J. Clark, 1719.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

William Ellery Channing

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Topic

Locus of control

Author

William Ellery Channing

Source

Self-Culture

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Channing, William Ellery. "Self Culture." Franklin Lecture. Sept. 1838, Boston, MA, USA.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Francis Kilvert

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Spending time in nature Man and nature Nature

Author

Francis Kilvert

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Kilvert, Francis. Diary entry. 29 May 1871.

God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

William Ellery Channing

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Literature as link to the past Power of literature Books

Speaker

William Ellery Channing

Source

Self Culture

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Channing, William Ellery. "Self Culture." Franklin Lecture. Sept. 1838, Boston, MA, USA.

Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

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Topic

One's native land Travel

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

Source

Of Travelling The Holy State and the Profane State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1642 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 4.

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place... The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

William Paley

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Topic

Argument from design Origin of life

Author

William Paley

Source

Natural Theology

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Paley, William. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature. London: R. Faulder/Philadelphia: John Morgan, 1802, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Paley, WIlliam. Natural Theology, edited by Matthew D. Eddy and David Knight. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 1.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Robert Runcie

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Topic

Decline of religion Modern life The Middle Ages

Speaker

Robert Runcie

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Runcie, Robert. Speech in London. 6 Dec. 1988, London, England, UK.

My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From ev'ry mountain-side
Let freedom ring.

Samuel Francis Smith

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

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Topic

American Civil War

Author

Samuel Francis Smith

Source

America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook Patriotic songs

Language

English

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Smith, Samuel Francis. "America." The Choir. Boston: Lowell Mason, 1832. Originally performed in public on 4 July 1831, Park Street Church, Boston, MA, USA.

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert

Read Love (III) at Poetry Foundation

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Topic

Power of love Love

Author

George Herbert

Source

Love (III) The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Original Citation

Herbert, George. "Love (III)." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, I. 1.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Love (3)." The Temple. Penguin Classics, 2018, I. 1.

In some men only the feeble glimmerings of Taste appear; the beauties which they relish are of the coarsest kind; and of these they have but a weak and confused impression, while in others, Taste rises to an acute discernment, and a lively enjoyment of the most refined beauties.

Hugh Blair

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Topic

Taste Refinement Discernment Elitism

Author

Hugh Blair

Source

Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Blair, Hugo. "Lecture II: Taste." Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. 1787, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Current Citation

Blair, Hugo. "Lecture II: Taste." Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres. SIU Press, 2005.

It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From Angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
'Peace on the earth, good will to man
From Heaven's all gracious King,'
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Edmund Sears

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

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Topic

Jesus's birth

Author

Edmund Sears

Source

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Sears, Edmund. "That Glorious Song of Old." The Christian Register, 1849, I. 1.

There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.

Frank Buchman

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Environmental destruction Natural resources Capitalism

Author

Frank Buchman

Source

Moral Re-Armament

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Buchman, Frank. "Moral Re-Armament." 29 May 1938, East Ham Town Hall, London, England, UK.

Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired trough his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.

Pope Pius XII

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Topic

Property rights

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Pope Pius XII

Medium

Radio broadcast Speech

Language

Italian

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Pope Pius XII. "Radiomessaggio di su Santita Pio XII Nel V Anniversario Dall'inizio della Guerra Mondiale [Radio Message from His Holiness Pius XII on the Fifth Anniversary of the Beginning of the World War]." Federal Communications Commission. 1 Sept. 1944, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... His people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

George Fox

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Topic

God and man

Author

George Fox

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1646 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fox, George. Journal entry. c. 1646.