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It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.