John Cotton quotes
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“Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.”
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“If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.”
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“A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.”
-- John CottonSource : "Don't Think of Them as Mausoleums" by Tara Mulholland, www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2010.
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“The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.”
-- John CottonSource : "The powring ovt of the seven vials".
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“Liberty of conscience is for those who truly fear the Lord. A fundamental task of the state is the establishment of pure religion.”
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“Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?”
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“Love carries through many difficulties easily and makes heavy burdens light.”
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Source : Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.160, Random House
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Source : "The Man Who Revitalized 'Doctor Who' And 'Sherlock'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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