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There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

— Edwin Hubbell Chapin Living Words (1860)

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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

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Christ saw much in this world to weep over, and much to pray over; but he saw nothing in it to look upon with contempt.

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Pride is the master-sin of the devil; and the devil is the father of lies.

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There is no happiness in life, there is no misery, like that growing out of the dispositions which consecrate or desecrate a Home.

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An aged Christian, with the snow of time on his head, may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven.

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