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Quotes from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers — James Waddel Alexander

1804–1859 United States

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Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it; it was my salvation from the howling sea! So the interest which a regenerate soul takes in the Bible, is founded on a personal application to the heart of the saving truth which it contains.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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