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The Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.

John Robinson

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Address to the English puritans before the departure from England for America.

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Robinson, John. Robinson's farewell address to the pilgrims. 1620, The Mayflower, England, UK.

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When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.

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The best mirror is an old friend.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 292.

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Grief melts away
Like snow in May,
As if there were no such cold thing.

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, st. 1.

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Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Complete Poetry, edited by John Drury and Victoria Moul. Penguin Classics, 2015, st. 1.

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One hour's sleep before midnight is worth three after.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 875.

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Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart
Could have recover'd greennesse?

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

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Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, st. 2.

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Herbert, George. "The Flower." The Complete Poetry, edited by John Drury and Victoria Moul. Penguin Classics, 2015, st. 2.

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For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

Isaac Watts

Against Idleness and Mischief

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Watts, Isaac. "Against Idleness and Mischief." Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for the Use of Children. London: M. Lawrence, 1715, I. 11.

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The culture of life means respect for nature and protection of God's work of creation. In a special way it means respect for human life from the first moment of conception until its natural end.

Pope John Paul II

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Pope John Paul II. Speech on the occasion of the eighth world youth day. Farewell ceremony. 15 Aug. 1993, International Airport of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.

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Honesty is the best policy; but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man.

Richard Whately

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Whately, Richard. Thoughts and Apophthegms. London: Blackader and Company, 1854, ch. 18.

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It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

Richard Whately

Introductory Lectures on Political Economy

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Whately, Richard. "Introductory Lectures on Political Economy." 1831, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

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Alteration though it be from worse to better hath in it inconveniences, and those weighty.

Richard Hooker

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Hooker, Richard. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. 1593, bk. 4, ch. 14, sect. 1.

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Hooker, Richard. The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity In Modern English, edited by Bradford Littlejohn. Vol. 1, The Davenant Press, 2019, bk. 4, ch. 14, sect. 1.

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He that is not handsome at twenty, nor strong at thirty, nor rich at forty, nor wise at fifty, will never be handsome, strong, rich, or wise.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 345.

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I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

George Fox

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Fox, George. Journal entry. c. 1647.

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We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee.

Walter Chalmers Smith

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God, All in All

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Read the lyrics to this hymn at hymnary.org

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Smith, Walter Chalmers. "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise." Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1867.

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Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

John Henry Newman

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Read Apologia Pro Vita Sua at Project Gutenberg

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Newman, John Henry. "History of my Religious Opinions up to 1833." Apologia Pro Vita Sua. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864.

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Newman, John Henry. "History of my Religious Opinions up to 1833." Apologia Pro Vita Sua, edited by Ian Ker. Penguin Classics, 1995.

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I say you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich... Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it! You ought because you can do more good with it than you could without it.

Russell H. Conwell

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Conwell, Russell H. "Acres of Diamonds." Chautauqua circuit. c. 1882. Lecture.

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Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate... Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

The Holy State and the Profane State

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Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 22.

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I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.

George Bennard

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The Old Rugged Cross

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Bennard, George. "The Old Rugged Cross." Heart and Life Songs for the Church, Sunday School, Home, and Campmeeting. 1915.

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The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war.

George Bell

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On the Allied policy of widspread bombing of Berlin and other German cities in 1944.

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Bell, George. "Speech Opposing Area Bombing." House of Lords meeting. 9 Feb. 1944, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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You will never be free until we are free.

Desmond Tutu

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Tutu, Desmond. "Bill Moyers Talks with Archbishop Desmond Tutu." Bill Moyers Journal. PBS, 27 Apr. 1999.

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