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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.

— James Waddel Alexander Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The true recipe for a miserable existence is this: Quarrel with Providence.

There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy.

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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