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Holiness: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Might make a saintship of an anchorite.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto I. St. 11.

Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground.— BYRON — Childe Harold. Canto II. St. 88.

God attributes to place No sanctity, if none be thither brought By men who there frequent. C.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. XI. L. 836.

Whoso lives the holiest life Is fittest far to die.— MARGARET J. PRESTON — Ready.

But all his mind is bent to holiness, To number Ave-Maries on his beads; His champions are the prophets and apostles, His weapons holy saws of sacred writ, His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves Are brazen images of canonized saints.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 58.

He who the sword of heaven will bear Should be as holy as severe; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go; More nor less to others paying Than by self-offences weighing. Shame to him whose cruel striking Kills for faults of his own liking!— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 275.

Our holy lives must win a new world's crown.— Shakespeare — Richard II. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 24.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.— SPURGEON — Gleanings Among the

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