"No man can in any measure resemble the scripture saints."

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Source : Charles Simeon, Jean Claude, Thomas Hartwell Horne (1832). “Horæ homileticæ, or Discourses, in the form of skeletons upon the whole Scriptures. [With] Appendix. (With indexes, prepared by T. H Horne). To which is annexed an improved ed. of a transl. of [J] Claude's Essay on the composition of a sermon”, p.17

Charles Simeon

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“The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.”
“To me, success is when you can walk into Ralph's and buy anything you want. Ultimate success, however, is when Ralph can walk into you and buy anything he wants.”
“Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.”

Source : "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon: Michigan State, Tiger Woods, Great Sports Movies and More". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 6, 2009.
“How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?”
“Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.”
“Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.”

Source : "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 73, 2006.
“I have no fear in moving up (in weight) and fighting.”
“Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.”

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