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Drink is in itself a good creature of God, but the abuse of drink is from Satan.

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Now as usually providence so ordereth that they who have been speaking all their lives long shall not say much when they come to die.

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Thunder is the voice of God, and, therefore, to be dreaded.

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Some men also have strange antipathies in their natures against that sort of food which others love and live upon. I have read of one that could not endure to eat either bread or flesh; of another that fell into a swooning fit at the smell of a rose...

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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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Born: June 21, 1639
Died: August 23, 1723 (aged 84)
Bio: Increase Mather was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay.
Known for:
  1. Remarkable Providences
  2. Course of Sermons on Early Piety

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