The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
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What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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