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No young woman should be placed in circumstances such as to make marriage an only refuge from poverty or dependence upon her friends or a life of ennui

— Benjamin Fish Austin On Women (1890)

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To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.

Sermon (1899)

Is God asleep that he should cease to be all that he was to the prophets of the past?

Sermon (1899)

It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago.

Sermon (1899)

Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value

Sermon (1899)

The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire

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The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

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