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John Foxe

"But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success."

Source : John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1856). “Fox's Book of Martyrs, Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs ... to which is Added an Account of the Inquisition ... with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers”, p.480

John Foxe

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“I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.”
“People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.”
“Without work men are utterly undone”

Source : Nevil Shute (1991). “Ruined City”
“Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.”

Source : John Donne (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Donne (Illustrated)”, p.115, Delphi Classics
“You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again.”
“It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open a book to read it again; we can never really experience it in the same way, just as we can never step into the same stream twice.”
“Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge that's mostly attacking our sense of worth or value, instead of giving us helpful information.”
“I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.”

"But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success."

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