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I learn the depth to which I have sunk from the length of the chain let down to up-draw me. I ascertain the mightiness of the ruin by examining the machinery for restoration.

— Henry Melvill Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others — operate, we mean, in the way of example.

The Bible tells me explicitly that Christ was God; and it tells me, as explicitly that Christ was man. It does not go on to state the modus or manner of the union.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The mysteries of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our nothingness and our greatness; producing humility, and animating hope. I bow before these mysteries.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God is summoning you. Angels are summoning you. The myriads who have gone before are summoning you. We are surrounded by a "great cloud of witnesses."

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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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.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

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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