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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
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"What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!"

"The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance."

"People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy."

"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct."

"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."

"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them."
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