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Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. No conversion after the first half hour.

— Nathaniel Emmons Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."

Tryon Edwards (1853)

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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