The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Where mystery begins religion ends.
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If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain
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