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Our companionship and our books were all-satisfying.
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Your only claim can be that it is the best possible artifice for the perpetuation of life, or that it is the only perfect, all-sufficient, and all-satisfying arti - fice that man can devise.
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And pray God to give them happiness here for many, many years, for the sake of their friends and lovers; and an heavenly crown hereafter; and such assurances of it, as I have, through the all-satisfying merits of my blessed Redeemer.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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We may be less clinging and less dependent on any one relation to be all-satisfying, and we may spend less time with each individual, but each is a full involvement.
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This shall not be by acting faith with respect unto the actual exercise of the mediation of Christ, as now we cleave unto God; but it shall be by the all-satisfying acting of love unto God, as he hath manifested himself, and will manifest himself in Christ.
Christologia 1616-1683 1965
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The illustrious brightness wherewith this glory shines in heaven, the all-satisfying sweetness which the view of it gives unto the souls of the saints there possessed of glory, are not by us conceivable, nor to be expressed.
Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965
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Neither words nor pencil could give to the most imaginative reader the slightest idea of the all-satisfying beauty and purity of this glorious conception.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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It is for the fresher genius of America to lead them towards the solution of the greatest problem which has ever faced mankind: -- the final, constructive and all-satisfying definition of the myriadwise interpreted word Democracy.
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I knelt down, and as well as I could for the tears that almost choked me, repeated that most simple, yet all-satisfying petition to the
J. Cole Emma Gellibrand
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Just at present the glory of that was all-satisfying, so much more than she had ever looked for or imagined possible, that to demand the uttermost crown of his returning love was in these first moments too great a consummation to be borne.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant
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