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So that godly sorrow may be discerned by this train of graces wherewith it is accompanied, that worldly sorrow wants, at least in the truth of them, though it may have some shadows of them.


Thomas Hooker

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THOMAS CARLYLE The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated...
THOMAS SOWELL It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
THOMAS MANN Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...
LEWIS THOMAS It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...
THOMAS SOWELL The things that we love tell us what we are.
THOMAS AQUINAS The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore ...
THOMAS SOWELL Problem solving is hunting. It is savage pleasure and we are born to it.
THOMAS HARRIS Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to c...
THOMAS AQUINAS Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
THOMAS HARDY Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...
THOMAS MERTON I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He...
THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS