George Whitefield Quotes
Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

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To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.
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Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.
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Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.
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There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.
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I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.
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When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.
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Gravity is a response to geometry.
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When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
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The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.
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What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.
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Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
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I only regret I have but one live to give for my country.
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Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.
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His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varèse with Scriabin and the Schoenberg circle among the revolutionary composers whose work initiates the beginning of a new mainstream tradition in the music of our century.
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While men's rights are guaranteed by specific language in the Constitution, women's equal rights aren't mentioned.
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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
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What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.