Date: 1662, 1762
"And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil."
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Date: 1662, 1762
"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart."
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Date: 1662, 1762
"My heart was hot within me; and while I was thus musing the fire kindled: and at the last I spake with my tongue."
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Date: 1662, 1762
"In the volume of the book it is written of me, that I should fulfil thy will, O my God: I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart."
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Date: 1662, 1762
"My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh also longeth after thee: in a barren and dry land, where no water is."
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Date: 1662, 1762
"My soul melteth away for very heaviness: comfort thou me according unto thy word."
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Date: 1662, 1762
"Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: the snare is broken, and we are delivered."
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Date: 1765
"Do thou O Tablet, either both, or nothing; either let thy words and sense go together, or be thy bosom a rasa tabula."
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Date: 1765
"And in this I am warranted by the example of ancient Rome; where, as Cicero informs us, the very boys were obliged to learn the twelve tables by heart, as a carmen necessarium or indispensable lesson, to imprint on their tender minds an early knowledge of the laws and constitution of their count...
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Date: 1766
"If society be formed, by the communication of ideas and sentiments, speech, is, undoubtedly, its most essential and most graceful band, being, at once, the pencil of the mind, the image of its operations, and, the interpreter of the heart."
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