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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."

"I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend."

"Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you."

"In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim."

"The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it."

"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."

"All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit."
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