It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
ADAM CLARKEThe Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
More Adam Clarke Quotes
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Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
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The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.
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Whether the family of the Clarkes were of Norman extraction cannot be easily ascertained.
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To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
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It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing
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The same sun that hardens the clay softens the wax.
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.
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Woe to that man who runs when God has not sent him; and woe to him who refuses to run, or who ceases to run, when God has sent him.
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But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.
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