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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed read more
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it read more
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of read more
Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
The people of the world having once been deceived, suspect deceit in truth itself.
