Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

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Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

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I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.

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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

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If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

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