ThursdayNov 21, 2024
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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
Dont despair of a student if he has one clear idea.
Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Great objects from great minds.
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is, that they divide and shift their attention among a multiplicity of objects and pursuits.
How vast is eternity! It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism on which a man can firmly fix his foot.
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
I could never think well of a mans intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
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