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«I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.»
«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»
«Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves»
Author: John Flavel
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«I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections»
Author: William Congreve
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«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.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.»
«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»
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
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Discovery
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«It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
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«It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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America and Americans,
Books,
Crime
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