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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or…
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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All money is a matter of belief.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but…
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The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same,…
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He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
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You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel…
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There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
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The aim of every political Constitution, is or ought to be first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to…
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No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,…
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For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our…
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