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"Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."

"He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care."

"True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

"Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it."

"He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end."
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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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