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To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

— Ralph Venning Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

They spare the rod, and spoyle the child.

He accounts himself lesse then the least of all mercies; and yet he looks on the greatest as his due.

Courteous reader, 'tis said of scripture that it is deep enough for an elephant to swim in, and yet shallow enough for a lamb to wade through.

Sin is anti-will to God's will; it sets itself to oppose preaching, prayer, and all the institutions of God.

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