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• One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
• Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
• There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
• Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
• The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
• In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
• There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
• Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
• Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
• Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
• I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
• The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…

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