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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

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Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

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We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

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Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

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One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.

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Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.

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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

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The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

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Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.

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To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.

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To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

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Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

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Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

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We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.

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He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

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Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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