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It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."
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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.

wendell phillips

— Speech (December 21, 1855)

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The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.

artemus ward

— London Punch Letters, No. 5 (1866).

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Certainly no valid answer is ever gained by excluding any factors of the problem; that was the Puritans’ error.

tim powers

— Chapter 15 (p. 370)

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What the Puritans gave the world was not thought, but action.


— Wendell Phillips, speech, The Pilgrims. Dec. 21, 1855.

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Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839), IV, 5.

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It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare."

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— Matthew Henry, Commentaries, Isaiah XXX.

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