It has come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much a subject of inquiry; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious.


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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has sh...
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's di...
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and...
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfyin...
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Words are clothes that thoughts wear
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is
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The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religiou...
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All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its ...
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There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every...
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being good, clever, or amiable.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty.
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Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has wri...
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He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any m...
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Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man ma...
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All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as tr...
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Neither have they hearts to stay. Nor wit enough to run away.
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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised t...
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I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and th...
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a tr...
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Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in th...
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
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Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
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For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy an...
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, i...
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
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The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
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