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Remember, there are only a few model preachers. We have read of only one perfect Model, and He was crucified many centuries ago.

— Charles Henry Fowler Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Religions which depend upon arguments are failures. A religion, to be aggressive, must be experimental; men must be something and do something by means of it, which would be otherwise impossible; then they become both rhetoric and logic — persuasion and proof.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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