Of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
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Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge.
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