Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.
JOHN BROWN
Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
More John Brown Quotes
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Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.
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Now let us thank th’ eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.
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I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.
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Had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends…every man in this court would have deemed it an act worthy of reward rather than punishment.
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The angels are ministering spirits; they are not governing spirits.
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I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.
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Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.
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Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!
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I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.
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Symptoms are the body’s mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.
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Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.
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I am gaining in health slowly, and am quite cheerful in view of my approaching end, – being fully persuaded that I am worth inconceivably more to hang than any other purpose.
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These men are all talk; What is needed is action – action!
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The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.
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The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.
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I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.
JOHN BROWN