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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.