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Go to Dahomey, Ashantee, Caffraria, Malaisia, — anywhere; search out the rudest people on earth; draw a picture of its vices and cruelties, make it as black as you can, and we will parallel it by pictures of Greece under Pericles and of Rome under Cicero.

— Edward Thomson Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a Divine success. "Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth."

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

If, in proportion as our minds are enlarged, our hearts purified, and our consciences cultivated, our abhorrence of wrong and aversion to it increases, what must be the moral indignation of the infinite and holy God against wrong-doers?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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