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"It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion."
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"Our character develops with endurance of every circumstance."
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"Take the high road. People will rise up to join you or fall out of sight."
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"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."
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"Conscience does make cowards of us all."
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"Sin is all wrong doing."
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"Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny."
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"We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality."
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"Good and evil are both fundamental features of the human mind."
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"She led the way. Eyeless sockets of the dead seemed to stare at them as they passed. "These are cool," Dan decided. "Maybe I could-""No, Dan," Amy said. "You can't collect human bones.""Awww."
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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."
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"...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes the side of spiritualism; he preaches the efficacy of repentance toward forgiveness of sin. I require a counterpoise of good works to redeem it... Among the sayings & discourses imputed to him by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the most lovely benevolence: and others again of so much ignorance, so much absurdity, so much untruth, charlatanism, and imposture, as to pronounce it impossible that such contradictions should have proceeded from the same."
Criticism

"He who knows best knows how little he knows."
Knowledge

"The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."
Life

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."
Education

"If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest."
Peace

"Power is not alluring to pure minds."
Wisdom

"The small landholders are the most precious part of a state."
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"The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it."
Science

"No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will."
Society

"All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not."
Mortality
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