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" Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. "

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" If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists. "

" The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever. "

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" In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious. "

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" Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good. "

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