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The law always limits every power it gives.
The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.
There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.
There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.
This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'.
All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
Fear God and work hard.
I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.
I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.
I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
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