Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!
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Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God morality is religion with its face toward the world.Tryon Edwards
To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
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There is often as much independence in not being led, as in not being driven.
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Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
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