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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."
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"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

"God has forgiven and still forgives us when we repent from our sins, an indication that we are not called to sin, but to live in accordance with His will."

"Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back."
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"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing."
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