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There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!
John Hancock
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John Hancock
Age: 56 †
Born: 1737
Born: January 23
Died: 1793
Died: October 8
Entrepreneur
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Massachusetts
John Hancock III
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The British ministry can read that name without spectacles let them double their reward.
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It is the Happiness of his Church that, when the Powers of Earth and Hell combine against it...that the Throne of Grace is of the easiest access-and its Appeal thither is graciously invited by the Father of Mercies, who has assured it, that when his Children ask Bread he will not give them a Stone.
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...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.
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Some boast of being friends to government I am a friend to righteous government, to a government founded upon the principles of reason and justice but I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.
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Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.
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A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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I urge you by all this is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that you pray but also that you act!
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I shall look forward to a pleasant time.
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