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When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

— John Wesley

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Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)

But when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, the brightest crown will be given to the sufferers.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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