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... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt about consumption. Perhaps it also feels unnatural. Mother Nature doesn't throw stuff away. Dead trees, birds, beetles and elephants are pretty quickly recycled by the system.
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Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.
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Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.
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If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!
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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.
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Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
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Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.
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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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The tendency of fire is to go out watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
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There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
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Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
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If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd learn how!
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While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!
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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
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