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«Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake»
«A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.»
Author: Washington Irving
(Writer)
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Mothers
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«God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle through with precepts they have picked from the garbage can of older people, clinging with the passion of the lost to odds and ends that will mess th»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
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clinging, garbage, garbage can, move into, odds, odds and ends, picked, Precepts, The Passion, through with
«And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you: / Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.»
«Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.»
«Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.»
«And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.»
«Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.»
«And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: / And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; / We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: / Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.»
Author: Bible
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confession, departing, fasting, Precepts, rebelled, sackcloth, sackcloth and ashes, supplications, The Covenant, wickedly
«He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.»
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