Many Thoughts of Many Minds - A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Various
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It has God for its author, salvation for its end, and truth, without
any mixture of error, for its matter: it is all pure, all sincere, nothing too much, nothing wanting.--LOCKE. A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district--all studied and appreciated as they merit--are the principal support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.--FRANKLIN. Here there is milk for babes, whilst there is manna for angels; truth level with the mind of a peasant; truth soaring beyond the reach of a seraph.--REV. HUGH STOWELL. It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.--GOETHE. BIGOTRY.--All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.--POPE. Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.--CHAPIN. A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.--ADDISON. Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.--FELTHAM. BIOGRAPHY.--The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be |
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