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"I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes."
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"The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive."
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"To know the good from the bad, study a man or woman's history of actions, not their record of intentions."
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"Never be seduced by the sweet promises of a better path."
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"When people show you who they are, believe them."
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"The voice incessantly quelled in the chorus of human voices will always be the voice of God. And given a reality of this magnitude, I would be well advised to cease my babbling and encourage those around me to do the same."
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"Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise."
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"A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water."
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"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
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"The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines."
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"Although each of us has the right to believe we are suffering, I suppose, there is a definite and ultimately essential distinction to be made between actual suffering, its cause and resolution, and invented or imagined suffering."
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"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."
Nature
"When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for."
Man
"The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby."
Character
"Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness."
Society
"Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end."
Love
"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence."
Love
"Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship."
Nature
"For Man to tell how human life began is hard, for who himself beginning knew?"
History
"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
Struggle
"Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk."
Virtue
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