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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."
"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures."
"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."
"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
"When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear."
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."
"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
"God desires that through us the ones who do not know him will be convinced."
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"What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?"
"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
"The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority."
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
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