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" The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter. "

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" Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. "

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" Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us. "

" People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others. "

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