Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculation.
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What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
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A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
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