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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
• Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the…
• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
• Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
• Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always…
• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
• Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
• The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render…
• Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
• Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
• Hatred is self-punishment.
• Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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