Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.
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In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.Richard Whately
The word knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things truth, proof, and conviction.
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Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.
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There is a soul of truth in error; there is a soul of good in evil.
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As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
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