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All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.…
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The true science and study of mankind is man.
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study…
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it…
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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
— Laurence Sterne
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Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.
— Demosthenes
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in…
— William Gurnall
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Afflictions tend to wean us from the world - and to fix our affections on things above.
— John Angell James
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so!…
— John Owen
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We must cast away everything which hinders us upon our road towards heaven – the lust of the flesh, the lust of…
— J C Ryle
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