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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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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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Greed
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Samuel Johnson
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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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Evangelism
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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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Evangelism

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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Evangelism

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. – Richard Cecil

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Evangelism

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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Evangelism

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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? Hes the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. – Allan Massie

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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. – Seneca

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Einsteins results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. – Imre Lakatos

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