Josiah Bartlett Quotes

• Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Physicians, Used, Standing

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• Of all the vices incident to man, lying is the most mean, most contemptible; it evinces a very weak, depraved heart, which shrinks at the exposure of motives and of actions.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Lying, Heart, Mean

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• Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Jesus, People, Earth

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• Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Moving, Sake, Way

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• Firstly I commit my Soul into the hands of God, its great and benevolent author.

  Josiah Bartlett

  Hands, Soul, Benevolent

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