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Hell is truth seen too late — duty neglected in its season.

— Tryon Edwards

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People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food – the way to get life out of it.

Facts are God’s arguments : we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.

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