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- Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to…
- The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
- If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our…
- Error is always more busy than truth.
- There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
- Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is...always an enemy to happiness.
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