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A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.

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In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

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Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

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No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

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The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

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We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

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No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

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Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

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Good fathers not only tell us how to live, they show us.

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If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

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Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.

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Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

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God puts something good and loveable in every man His hands create.

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Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

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God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

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Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

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