Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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