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• Pity is like eating mustard without beef.
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its…
• The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
• Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.
• Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.
• Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.
• Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in…
• The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place,…
• Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
• The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.
• What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
• Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that…

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