Never was a narrative more full of horrors, frenzies, unspeakable degradations, and overwhelming miseries than is the history of the siege of Jerusalem. Never was any prophecy more closely, more terribly, more overwhelmingly fulfilled than this of Christ.
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Why did not this multitude of ignorant pilgrims resist Why did these greedy chafferers content themselves with dark scowls and muttered maledictions, while they suffered their oxen and sheep to be chased into the streets and themselves ejected, and their.Frederic William Farrar
The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.
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It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God easy to entangle the soul in a network of petty observances, difficult to yield the obedience of an enlightened heart easy to be haughtily exclusive, difficult to be humbly spiritual easy to be an ascetic or a formalist, difficult to be pure, and loving, and wise, and free easy to be a Pharisee, difficult to be a disciple very easy to embrace a self-satisfying and sanctimonious system of rabbinical observances, very difficult to love God with all the heart, and all the might, and all the soul, and all the strength.
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The knowledge of evil tempteth to its commission.
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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
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Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.
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