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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.

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

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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)

Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent, and divine.

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