A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Thomas Adams

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

The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.— filed under Covetousness
If I were to live to the world's end, and do all the good that man can do, I must still cry, "Mercy!" Why then should I be unwilling or afraid to die this moment, with a sense of God's pardoning love, when I can have no other claim to salvation if I were to live forever?— filed under God's Love
We cannot keep thieves from looking in at our windows, but we need not give them entertainment with open doors.— filed under Thought
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