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" Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. "

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" Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. "

" What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. "

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" Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. "

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" To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. "

" I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs. "

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" Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. "

" There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. "