The greatest truths are the simplest.

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Man without religion is the creature of circumstances.

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

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Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.

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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

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To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

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As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.

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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

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Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

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