We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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