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"There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."
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"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
"Yet, nearly 6 decades after the Holocaust concluded, Anti-Semitism still exists as the scourge of the world."
"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."
"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
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"This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words."
"The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice."
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"
"For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."
"Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food."
"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."
"Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you."
"Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature."
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