"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."

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"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."

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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

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"The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others."

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