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Sylvia said:
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I have finished this biographical scholar but I liked the manner in which he writes about Jefferson. I wish a little more time had been spent on the early consequences of his life.
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"I enjoyed this biography but did not find it as creating a idea that we are part of the action as I would like. Also, I wish more time had been spent on his early life." — Apr 04, 2014 01:28PM
"I enjoyed this biography but did not find it as creating a idea that we are part of the action as I would like. Also, I wish more time had been spent on his early life." — Apr 04, 2014 01:28PM
progress:
(page 214 of 296)
"I didn't bother to finish. I don't like his sarcastic way of writing and I did not want to waste my time." — Apr 04, 2014 01:14PM
"I didn't bother to finish. I don't like his sarcastic way of writing and I did not want to waste my time." — Apr 04, 2014 01:14PM
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.”
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“Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”
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“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.”
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?”
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“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
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By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”
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