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I board with a poor Scotchman: his wife can talk scarce any English. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ↗

— Edward Fairfax

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I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God. ↗

— David Brainerd

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My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly. ↗

— Clifton Fadiman

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The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. ↗

— David Brainerd

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Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.' ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

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We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can. ↗

— David Brainerd

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