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It is better to be a self-made man,--filled up according to God's original pattern,--than to be half a man, made after some other man's pattern.

J. G. Holland

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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.
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