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Tag Name "Puritan" (88)

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The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.
Margaret Atwood
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.
Wendell Phillips
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Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three‌–‌your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.
John Flavel
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Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.
Stephen Charnock
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The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.
Rebecca West
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The God of the Puritans...was a monster too horrible to contemplate.
John Burroughs
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Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
Thomas Watson
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The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.
Wendell Phillips
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The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!
John Calvin
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No group of people has been more unjustly maligned in the twentieth century than the Puritans. As a result, we approach the Puritans with an enormous baggage of culturally ingrained prejudice.
Leland Ryken
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
Leland Ryken
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The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.
Thomas Brooks
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The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
H. L. Mencken
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The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.
Leland Ryken
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Art is hard for a puritan to understand.
Gunter Grass
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The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
Artemas Ward
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Napping is too luxurious, too sybaritic, too unproductive, and it's free pleasures for which we don't pay make us anxious. Besides, it seems to be a natural inclination. ... Fighting off natural inclinations is a major Puritan virtue, and nothing that feels that good can be respectable.
Barbara Holland
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You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell.
James Young
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Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.
Hugh Hefner
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I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
Oscar Wilde
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In the history of extra-biblical study and research tools there has never before been a resource as useful as the Puritan Hard Drive.
Paul Washer
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And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
Rene Auberjonois
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The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.
John Flavel
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He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
Louis Kronenberger
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