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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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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – 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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The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christs particular loves sake! – Robert Browning

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

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