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John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

— Charles Spurgeon

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The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

Faith's Checkbook (1888)

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

A man who does nothing never has time to do anything.

The Salt-Cellars (1885)

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

The Salt-Cellars (1885)

A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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