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Joseph Barber Lightfoot

"Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away."

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"Word of mouth is the best medium of all."

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"But words - words are not enough!"

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"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."

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"Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition."

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"Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages."

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"Words build bridges into unexplored regions."

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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."

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"If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times."

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"I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds."

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"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'"

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"This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven."
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"But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters."
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"This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency."
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"The Church in England is the Church of England."
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"The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it."
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"The success and the failure are not my concern, but His."
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"So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them."
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"Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only."
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