Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?Augustus Hare
Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.
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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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