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William S. Plumer Quotes


An American lawyer and Baptist lay preacher from Epping, New Hampshire.
William Plumer (June 25, 1759 – December 22, 1850) was an American lawyer and Baptist lay preacher from Epping, New Hampshire. Born in 1759 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, he represented New Hampshire as a Federalist in the United States Senate from June 17, 1802 to March 4, 1807. Plumer would later become a Democratic-Republican and serve as a Governor of New Hampshire, 1812–1813 and 1816–1819. In the 1820 presidential election, he cast the only dissenting vote in the Electoral College against incumbent President James Monroe, voting instead for John Quincy Adams.

Here are some famous quotes by William S. Plumer.

Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.

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Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

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We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.

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God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.