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If ever Christianity appears in its power, it is when it erects its trophies upon the tomb; when it takes up its votaries where the world leaves them; and fills the breast with immortal hope in dying moments.

— Robert Hall Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after glittering for a moment, must pass away.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

His imperial fancy has laid all Nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art.

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

What other book besides the Bible could be heard in public assemblies from year to year, with an attention that never tires, and an interest that never cloys?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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