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An uneducated population may be degraded; a population educated, but not in righteousness, will be ungovernable. The one may be slaves, the other must be tyrants.

— Henry Melvill Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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There is not one of you whose actions do not operate on the actions of others — operate, we mean, in the way of example.

The Bible tells me explicitly that Christ was God; and it tells me, as explicitly that Christ was man. It does not go on to state the modus or manner of the union.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I learn the depth to which I have sunk from the length of the chain let down to up-draw me. I ascertain the mightiness of the ruin by examining the machinery for restoration.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The mysteries of the Bible should teach us, at one and the same time, our nothingness and our greatness; producing humility, and animating hope. I bow before these mysteries.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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