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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, you _have_ slept! I began to think you would never wake up." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Wake! said Randulf, scornfully," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I never snore, said Worse decisively;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Sleeping! I ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The sea can be very fine on such a summer evening. Your health." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The sea is always fine, Jacob. Your health." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Well, as long as one is young." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Young! wh...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "So it ended by my swearing that I would only have the bills of lading to which I was accustomed, and that rather than sign, the brig and the rye should remain in Dantzic Roads until they both rotted." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Of course," }, { "from": "hu...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When I look at such a table as that by the sofa, I cannot understand how it could be broken. You remember that night in Königsberg?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Yes; but you see, Jacob, we danced right against the table at full swing." }, { "from": "human",...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What do you say to just another drop, Jacob?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Well, it must be a little one." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "While the North Sea roars," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh yes, Hans Nilsen!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What were you going to say?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I--I only asked if you would have some more syrup and water," }, { "from": "human", "value": "No, thank you. I ought to be going." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It has been fine, warm weather to-day," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You are very pale." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What do you say?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lord, help us; what are we doing!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good evening, said he, pleasantly." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Is the little wife still sitting up? Is it not bed-time, little Sarah?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "We have had a very jolly day, Sarah." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "All t...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hey! so you know more about it than I do. Where did you go to school that you are so wise? Who was the third? Hey!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The devil, answered Sarah, lifting her eyes suddenly." }, { "from": "human", "value": "The loathsome fiend wa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I promise and swear to love you faithfully in life or death, and never to marry any other." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "When you were last in town, Hans Nilsen, she began, without any preface," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am now of opinion that the time has come." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You also asked me at that time, Hans Nilsen, if I knew of any Christian young woman who would suit you. I believe that I have now found one--my daughter." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Are you unwell, Hans Nilsen?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "No; I am...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Hans, I am betrothed. I have given my promise to Lauritz Seehus, for life or death," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Listen, dear Hans, said Henrietta, laying her hand confidentially on his shoulder." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "You have always been kind to me, and you are so good yourself. You will not take me in this way, I am sure; but you will protect me from my mother?" },...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I have been anxious to see you, Hans Nilsen, and have sought you many times. There is a great desire among us to speak with you, and to meet you in confidential intercourse, but at present it seems to us that you are entirely taken up in this house with the conversation and soci...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "There are a number of people up at our farm, continued the dyer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Willingly will I do it, if it be thought desirable." }, { "from": "human", "value": "We were thinking that perhaps you could go to-morrow." }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What are you about?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We are taking madame's bed into the other room." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Nonsense!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush, hush! said the old foreman." }, { "from": "human", "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I suppose you will repent, and seek forgiveness for your sins, Worse; or will you persist in putting it off?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, dear. You know how gladly I would repent. But you must help me, Sarah; for I know not what to do." }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lisbon," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Don't you think you could find something else to read, Sarah?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sarah, Sarah! read no more!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sarah! for God's sake, stop!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I wonder if you have yet placed yourself in the hands of the living God?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sarah, Sarah! What shall I do?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Pray," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Sarah, why are you so harsh with me? You were never so before." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I never before dealt with you in the right way." }, { "from": "human", "value": "Do you suppose that _this_ is the right way?" }, { "from": "gpt", "v...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I think, said Sivert Jespersen, looking round," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I have heard it mentioned, said Endre Egeland," }, { "from": "human", "value": "With Henrietta!" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, no, said the old dyer at last;" ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We have been talking among ourselves, he began." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "We have been talking about you, dear Hans Nilsen; yes, we have, indeed. We are all of opinion that you made use of very strong expressions that day--you remember, no doubt--at my house." ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I thank you all, but God has been merciful. I require no such aid as that which you offer." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How glad I am to hear it! said Sivert Jespersen, with effusion." }, { "from": "human", "value": "But--do not be angry with me, dear f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That was the time when you saw me wandering amongst you, bowed down and forsaken. But God be praised, who has lifted me up. I will dare to hope that He will not cast me entirely aside as an unworthy instrument; but, dear friends, among you I can no longer tarry." }, { "f...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "or whether Hans Nilsen could not on this occasion tolerate Sivert, it is sufficient to say that he answered him rather sharply." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If I do go, there is but one who will send me forth--the Lord." }, { "from": "human", "value": "...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Something of the same feeling came over me to-day, when he spoke--young Hans Nilsen Fennefos. It is of no use denying it; it is he who is in the right, and it is we who are backsliders and lukewarm." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will soon teach you a very different song." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I will not, I will not. I have sworn it." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It is all up with Jacob Worse; take my word for it, he is not long for this world. I saw it to-day." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I don't think so, said another;" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Yes, I tell you I saw it to-day, by his trousers." }, {...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Morten W. Garman." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The wrath of God is upon the land," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I promise and swear to love you faithfully in life and death, and never to marry any other person, Lauritz--my own Lauritz." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "God preserve us!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is possessed by Satan," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Some one must go out and speak to the crowd," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Why do you sit here in the dark; are you afraid of the light?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You have come just at the right moment, Hans Nilsen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "How pleasant are the feet of those who bring glad tidings!" }, { "from": "human", "value": "I come rather with evil tidings, said Hans Nilsen, looking gravely from one to ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good night and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Farewell." }, { "from": "human", "value": "You will hardly find the way, Hans Nilsen, this pitch dark night." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "For He who stills the tempest And calms the rolling sea, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "See how she loved him!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lauritz, you young scamp, go aloft and clear the dogvane!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We come late, Herr Consul, but we come safely." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He is a Spy" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Oh, Uncle John!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Breakfast," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Is Henshaw likely to give up the search?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Tiryaki" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But what would you have had a gentleman do, sir?" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I'll soon do that," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The shot took instant effect ;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "He put this idea into effect." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Art of Illustration." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I am as much at home with my young brethren as in the bosom of my family, and therefore speak without restraint. I do not offer that which has cost me nothing, for I have done my best, and taken abundant pains. Therefore, with clear conscience, I place my work at the service of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reasons are the pillars of the fabric of a sermon; but similitudes are the windows which give the best lights." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "for that is Dr. Johnson's literal rendering of the word _illustrate_. Often when didactic speech fails to enlighten our heare...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mr. Beecher was neatly tripped up in 'The Sword and the Trowel.' In his 'Lectures on Preaching' he asserts that Mr. Spurgeon has succeeded 'in spite of his Calvinism'; adding the remark that 'the camel does not travel any better, nor is it any more useful, because of the hump on...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "is a good caution: do not be too eager to garnish and adorn. Some men seem never to have enough of metaphors: each one of their sentences must be a flower. They compass sea and land to find a fresh piece of colored glass for their windows, and they break down the walls of their ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; I am looking only to my illustration. Our figures are meant not so much to be seen as to be seen through. If you take the hearer's mind away from the subject by exciting his admiration of your own skill in imagery, you are doing evil rather than good. I saw in one of our exhib...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thoughts, epithets, incidents, images came trooping round with irrepressible profusion, and they were all so apt and beautiful that it was hard to send any of them away. And so he tried to find a place and use for all--for 'flowers and wings of butterflies,' as well as 'wheat'; ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "said the Word," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "(Ex. xx. 25). A labored, artificial style, upon which the graver's tool has left abundant marks, is more consistent with human pleadings in courts of law, or in the forum, or in the senate, than with prophetic utterances ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints. All our windows should open toward Jerusalem, and none toward Sodom. We will gather our flowers always and only from Emmanuel's land, and Jesus himself shall be their savor and sweetness, so that when he lingers at the latt...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I smell a rat; I see it floating in the air; I'll nip it in the bud. Minor blunderings are frequent enough in the speech of our own countrymen. An excellent temperance advocate exclaimed," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Comrades, let us be up and doing! Let us take ou...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "March on, however rough the road, Though foes obstruct thy way, Deaf to _the barking curs that would_ _Ensnare thy feet astray_." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The words had such a pious ring about them that the audience did not observe the fractured state of the exp...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Beware how you lower yourselves and your sacred office by repeating anecdotes, which are best appreciated by the vulgar and uneducated." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "through the affectation of it. A young gentleman, after delivering an elaborate discourse, was told that not more than five or six in the congregation had been able to understand him. This he accepted as a tribute to his genius; but I take leave to place him in the same class wi...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take thine ease, have been a photograph taken from life? Did not Dives and Lazarus actually figure on the stage of history? Certainly the story of those who were crushed by the fall of the tower of Siloam, and the sad tragedy of the Galileans," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Latimer more than any other man promoted the Reformation by his preaching; and in this he echoes the more important utterance of Ridley, who wrote from his prison," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I do think that the Lord hath placed old father Latimer to be his standa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Friar John Ten Commandments ; wherefore the servant showed the friar his master thereof, and advised him to preach of some other matters; for it grieved the servant to hear his master derided. Now, the friar made answer saying," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Belike, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Anthony, thou art not so perfect as is a cobbler that dwelleth at Alexandria. Anthony hearing this rose up forthwith and took his staff and went till he came to Alexandria, where he found the cobbler. The cobbler was astonished to see so reverend a father to come into his house....
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "It would be hard to point out a branch of learning or of scientific pursuit to which he does not occasionally allude; or any author of eminence, either ancient or modern, with whom he does not evince himself acquainted. He more than once refers to obscure stories in ancient writ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The more you go back the longer you are in the place where you are ashamed to be seen" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Unsearchable Riches, trying his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Precious Remedies, tasting h...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Fables, anecdotes, classical poetry, gems from the fathers and other old writers, are scattered over almost every page." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "In the world ye shall have tribulation." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Nay, quoth the servant," }, { "from": "human", "value": "" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What, then, was his conclusion? He answered," }, { "from": "human", "va...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Navigation Spiritualized, and his" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Husbandry Spiritualized," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "(" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Lord, let me not be troubled for my silver and gold which I have lost, for thou art all things" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Mother, do you think that God will starve us? The mother answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, child; he will not. The child replied," }, { "from": "human", "value": "But if he do, yet we must love him and serve him. Here was language that spake a ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I use market language." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I liked you very well when I was in health, but it is my lady's chaplain I must have when I am sick." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I want two, then four, then six. And when he had them he said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I think I want nothing else...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Take a good look at the wound and then fix your eyes on me, and don't take them off till I get through the operation." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Here! They asked him what he wanted, and he put up his hand and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Hush! They are calling the roll of heaven, and I am answering to my name. And presently he whispered," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Here!" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I loikes Sunday, I does; I loikes Sunday." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "And what makes you like Sunday?" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Cause, you see, it's a day of rest: I goes down to the old church, I gets into a pew, and puts my legs up, and I thin...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Well, said the nobleman," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "" }, { "from": "human", "value": "My lord, answered the man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "So, when I have to deal with sin, some people say," }, { "from": "human", "value": ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Nay, nay, answered the man," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "It will certainly take all the wisdom that we can obtain to move the people among whom our lot is cast; and if we do not use every lawful means of interesting the minds of our hearers, we shall find that they...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. I can readily suppose that some ravens were flying just over his head, and that he pointed to them, and said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Consider the ravens; for they neither so...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. I think, however, that was puerile rather than powerful. I like Matthew Wilks better when, on another occasion, his text being," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See that ye walk circumspectly, he commenced by say...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "As to the Magdalenes and those who commit the sins of the flesh, such persons are very common; they abound even in this church; and I am going to throw this mass-book at a woman who is a Magdalene, whereupon all the women in the place bent down their heads. So the priest said," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Good God, he's gone! but Whitefield answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, my lord, he is not quite gone; let us hope that he may yet be saved. Then he went on to speak of the blind man as being led by his reason, which is only like a dog, showing that a man le...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "What dost thou mean by honoring thy father and thy mother? and he answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Please, your honor, it is allowing them a shilling a week out of my pay when they grow old. That was an admirable explanation of the meaning of the text. Then, ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Weep with them that weep, can you have than this pretty anecdote?" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Mother, said little Annie," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot make out why poor Widow Brown likes me to go in to see her; she says I do comfort her so;...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I have no soul. The preacher said he was greatly surprised, after he had been taught for years, that he did not know better than that; but the poor fellow thus explained himself," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I had a soul once, but I lost it; and Jesus Christ ca...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Power of Prayer" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "You see, you would not teach your boy to pray, but the devil evidently had no objection to teach him to swear. That is the mischief of it; if we do not try our best to bring our children to Christ, there is another who will do his worst to drag them down to hell. A mother once s...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "No, I cannot agree to such a prayer as that; I cannot put it in that shape; it must be God's will to restore him. I cannot bear that my child should die; pray that he may live whether it is God's will or not. He answered," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Woman, I canno...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Let us go and get some cherries out of your father's garden." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "No, he replies," }, { "from": "human", "value": "I cannot steal, and my father does not wish those cherries to be picked." }, { "from": "gpt", "value":...