A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Bishop Horne

3 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.— filed under Adversity
To preach practical sermons as they are called, that is, sermons upon virtues and vices, without inculcating those great Scripture truths of redemption, grace, etc., which alone can incite and enable us to forsake sin and follow after righteousness, what is it but to put together the wheels, and set the hands of a watch, forgetting the spring, which is to make them all go? --— filed under Preaching
Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost.— filed under Time
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