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The only way to avoid following that road to perdition is to surrender to the One who came to save us from it.— Into the Fire
She believes that without her he would go straight to perdition, and from a sense of duty she tolerates him, not daring to shirk her responsibility for the old reprobate's soul.— Essays on Scandinavian Literature
The spectator is a well fed, indifferent personage who laughs at the play and goes home to supper--perdition upon him and his kind!— Don Orsino
It is from that very class of theorizers who deny that the heathen are in danger of eternal perdition, and who represent the whole missionary enterprise as a work of supererogation, that we receive the most extravagant accounts of the natural powers and gifts of man.— Sermons to the Natural Man
Utter yourself against some meanness or hypocrisy in all the blasphemies that ever smoked up from perdition, and I will go on to denounce the same meanness and hypocrisy with a hundred-fold more stress and vehemency in words across which no slime has ever trailed, and through which no infernal fires have shot their forked tongues,--words pure, innocent, all-impressive, God-honored, Anglo-Saxon,--in which Milton sang, and Bunyan dreamed, and Shakespeare wrote But whatever be the source of this habit, it is on the increase.— The Abominations of Modern Society

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