“The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.”
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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.
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