Quote by Samuel Johnson
A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman. – Samuel Johnson

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The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied. – Samuel Johnson

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Students
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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. – Harvey Cox

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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. – Proverb

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. – Hosea Ballou

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