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There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

— Nathaniel Emmons Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. No conversion after the first half hour.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments."

Tryon Edwards (1853)

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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