Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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So then, when I speak to you, I speak to myself. If I seem to warn or to rebuke you, it is not so much you, as myself, to whom the warning or the rebuke is addressed.
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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot