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And if you must say these terrible things: these heart-wounding shameful things, at least find something prettier to call me than an old rip.
Misalliance George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Concerning which, as we are to remember that I shew at first that the subject of these excessive, heart-wounding troubles were both the elect and the reprobate, both the godly and the wicked; so we are to know further, that God has a very different design in bringing these terrors upon each of them.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI. 1634-1716 1823
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