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Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
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The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
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Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
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To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
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Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
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There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
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