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Friday, 5 September 2008

Daily Quote: "Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better." (Burney, Charles - Unity)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.

Even the people we most admire often feel inadequate.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

Whatever a man seeks, honors, or exalts more than God, this is the god of his idolatry.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

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