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«To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice you feel in yourself»
«Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you»
Author: John Owen | About: Killing, Sin, Work | Keywords: mortified, mortifies, mortify, mortifying
«Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves»
«What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?»
«I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections»
«Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: / For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: / In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.»
«DAWN, n. The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.»
«It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design»
«It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.»
«I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.»

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