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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
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God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
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Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
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