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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

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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...more

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To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social moralit...more

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[M]an is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road.

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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.

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It is therefore worthwhile, to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things, whereof we have no certai...more

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The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.