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My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
George Mcgovern / Historian
Father
Hate
Sin
Clergyman
Love Hate Always
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson / Writer
Clergymen
Compassionate
Ought
Virtuous
Clergyman
Same Thing
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Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George Macdonald / Author
Men
Better Man
Literature
Miles
Thieves
Clergyman
Gate
Nearer
Thief
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
Henry Fielding / Novelist
Animal
Church
Literature
Universe
Clergyman
Contemptible
Nor
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
Vincent Van Gogh / Painter
Art
Men
Fellow Man
Warm
Certainly
Clergyman
Fellow
Fellow Men
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My father's a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.
John Hurt / Actor
Honduras
Clergyman
Mission
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Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe.
Richard Coles /
Thank You
Decent
Pension
Provision
Retirement
Music I Am Me
Rare
Music Me I Am
Clergyman
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There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
Evelyn Waugh / Writer
Atheism
Belief
Commit
Draws
Religious
Religious Belief
Salary
Species
Clergyman
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Voltaire! A name that excites the admiration of men, the malignity of priests. Pronounce that name in the presence of a clergyman, and you will find that you have made a declaration of war.
Robert Green Ingersoll / Lawyer
Admiration
Declaration
Priests
Clergyman
Excites
Presence
Pronounce
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The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clergyman; for them also, the woman judge might often surpass the man in penetration and understanding.
Ellen Key / Writer
Might
Pastor
Understanding
Judge
Women Man Children
Clergyman
Minister
Surpass
Women And Children
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Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
William Hull / American Politician
Sympathy
Approach
Bible
Inhuman
Jailer
Support
Above
Attend
Captain
Clergyman
Near
Refused
Save
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I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace / Naturalist
Earnest
Impressive
Mind
Preacher
Tuesday
Years
Clergyman
Effect
Produced
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Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.
Herman Melville / Novelist
Church
Heaven
Pulpit
Soup
Sun
Truth Is
Trying
Clergyman
Heavens
Societies
Preach
Ride
Silliest
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When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll / Lawyer
Teacher
Blessed
Brave
Church
Patriot
Philanthropist
Philosopher
University
Cathedral
Clergyman
Thinkers
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
J. G. Ballard / Novelist
Dickens
Expected
Pages
Punishment
Ran
Shanghai
Attended
Cathedral
Charles
Clergyman
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