“ True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ”
- George Washington- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New. ”
- Benjamin Whichcote- Copy
- 1.2K
“ As a result of these new conditions, the States, cities, and towns were welded together, and population and prosperity increased rapidly in those inland sections which had formerly languished because they had no means of easy and rapid communication. ”
- John Moody- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter of great Necessity to imprint true catholicism on the Minds of Christians, it being a most lamentable thing to observe how few Christians in the World there be, that fall not into one Sect or another… ”
- Richard Baxter- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Were an energetic and judicious system to be proposed with your signature it would be a circumstance highly honorable to your fame … and doubly entitle you to the glorious republican epithet, The Father of your Country. ”
- Henry Knox- Copy
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“ Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense. ”
- Robert G. Ingersoll- Copy
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“ I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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“ In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. ”
- Paul Gauguin- Copy
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“ I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. ”
- Rachel Weisz- Copy
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“ It is the half-Christian clergy of every denomination that are the main cause of the so-called failure of the church of Christ. ”
- George MacDonald- Copy
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“ As a result of the feminist revolution, ''feminine'' becomes an abusive epithet. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
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“ As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet. ”
- Wyndham Lewis- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or…of something else. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
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“ A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
- 115
“ A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it. ”
- Brigham Young- Copy
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“ Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
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“ The freedom allowed in the United States to all sorts of inquiry and discussion necessarily leads to a diversity of opinion, which is seen not only in their being different denominations, but different opinions also in the same denomination. ”
- Robert Baird- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Nor is religion manifold, because there are various sects and heresies in the world. When I mention religion, I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion, and not only the Protestant religion but the Church of England. ”
- Henry Fielding- Copy
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“ Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects? ”
- James Madison- Copy
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“ A man of good sense but of little faith, whose compassion seemed to lead him to church as often as he went there, said to me; 'that he liked to have concerts, and fairs, and churches, and other public amusements go on. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Scientology is an encyclopaedia for life. It's non-denominational, it doesn't judge, it's a lot about self-discovery, and it helped me so much for one reason: it works. It helped me through my drugs, and it helps me still. It's my main anchor in life. ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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