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The church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.

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Not going home is already like death.

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So many Gods, so many creeds
So many ways that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
is all this sad world needs.

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The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will educate his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.

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The envier praises me unknowingly.

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There is nothing like returing to a place that remains uncganged to find how you yourself have altered.

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The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be; all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice and experience of them.

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true.

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You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.

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Persistence plus no dignity equals success.

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