Now if the study of the Scriptures be necessary to our happiness at any time in our life, the sooner we begin to read them, the more we shall be attached to them.
BENJAMIN RUSHLiberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
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Without Virtue there can be no liberty
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The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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A belief in God’s universal love to all his creatures, and that he will finally restore all of them that are miserable to happiness, is a polar truth. . . It establishes the equality of [humanity]. . .
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Tis done. We have become a nation.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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Beer is a wholesome liquor…..it abounds with nourishment
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It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, ’till he returns to them again.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ prescribes the wisest rules for just conduct in every situation in life. Happy they who are enabled to obey them in all situations!
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If moral precepts alone could have reformed mankind, the mission of the Son of God into all the world would have been unnecessary. The perfect morality of the gospel rests upon the doctrine which, though often controverted has never been refuted: I mean the vicarious life and death of the Son of God.
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Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.
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The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
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The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.
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A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.
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Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness.
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