Atheism is a system which can communicate neither warmth nor illumination, except from those fagots which your mistaken zeal has lighted up for its destruction.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONDoubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
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Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
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Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together.
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Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
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A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
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Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.
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Immitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
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