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“What other book besides the Bible could be heard in public assemblies from year to year, with an attention that never tires, and an interest that never cloys?”

Robert Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 35.

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“The Bible is the treasure of the poor, the solace of the sick, and the support of the dying; and while other books may amuse and instruct in a leisure hour, it is the peculiar triumph of that book to create light in the midst of darkness, to alleviate the sorrow which admits of no other alleviation, to direct a beam of hope to the heart which no other topic of consolation can reach; while guilt, despair, and death vanish at the touch of its holy inspiration.”

Robert Hall

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 30.

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“He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.”

Robert Hall

On Kippis; Gregory’s Life of Hall, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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