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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
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There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
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There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…
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The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit…
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Spain and southern Italy, in which Catholicism has most deeply implanted its roots, are even now, probably beyond all other countries in…
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Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers…
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Beyond this world and beyond all other worlds there is an all-perfect light. It is pure intelligence, ecstasy, peace and happiness. It…
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Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the…
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A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all…
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...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage
— Plutarch
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Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It…
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