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Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none.
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as... →
Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in... →
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
Again, Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.
I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English.
As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their practice... →
As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my... →
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet... →
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