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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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Therefore the Sage, wishing to be above the people, must by his words put himself below them; wishing to be before the…
— Laozi
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Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine…
— Edmund Burke
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
— Seneca the Younger
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The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The first law of social communication is whenever you meet anyone, exalt him or her.
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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The cross stands as a mystery because it is foreign to everything we exalt- self over principle, power over meekness, the quick…
— Ravi Zacharias
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It can happen to but few philosophers, and but at distant intervals, to snatch a science, like Dalton, from the chaos of…
— Charles Babbage
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While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in…
— Benjamin Rush
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The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to…
— Jimmy Carter
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Success can corrupt; usefulness can only exalt.
— Dimitris Mitropoulos
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt…
— James Dwight Dana
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