Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence. - Tryon Edwards

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Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool.

Tryon Edwards

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.

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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

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Contemplation is to knowledge what digestion is to food - the way to get life out of it

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What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

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High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

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No true civilization can be expected permanently to continue which is not based on the great principles of Christianity.

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