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Devotion is great but devotion with no quality cut-off has made the field one great big slagheap of Shit Lit schlockbusters, for all the diamonds buried in it.
Hey, Janet! Have You Got Syfy? Hal Duncan 2009
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Devotion is great but devotion with no quality cut-off has made the field one great big slagheap of Shit Lit schlockbusters, for all the diamonds buried in it.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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"The October Devotion" is centered around this Victorian phenomenon that spawned several modern day Christian denominations, ** despite Christ's stubborn refusal to appear as predicted.
June 30th, 2005 ms_violet 2005
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Devotion is perhaps the only balm for the wounds given by unhappy love; the heart is too much softened by true tenderness to admit any common cure.
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Devotion is a thing we ought to be constant in; other duties are in season now and then, but we must pray always.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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And vows for his Return, with vain Devotion, pays.
Poems 1686
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My Dear, I'll leave you too, my Time of Devotion is come, and heav'n will stay for no Body; where are my People, is my Coach ready, or my Chair.
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And such a kind of Devotion, I confess, Ignorance may be the Mother of: But a Man must be grosly ignorant that thinks this to be Devotion, which is but a piece of Pageantry, a mocking instead of serving God.
Private Thoughts Upon a Christian Life; or, Necessary Directions for Its Beginning and Progress Upon Earth... Part II. 1637-1708 1712
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My short story, "The October Devotion" is in it - along with stories by Poppy Z. Brite, Norman Partridge, David Prill, David J. Schow, Jay Lake, and Lewis Shiner.
I give you ... randomness victoria_lane 2006
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Earlier in the year, this Baltimore-based duo put out a lovely rainy-day record called Devotion, but this was the furthest thing from a rainy day.
Surviving the Siren Festival: Bill Bradley Bradley, Bill 2008
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