There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven. - Tryon Edwards

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Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

Tryon Edwards

There is often as much independence in not being led as in not being driven.

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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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It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours.

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