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As the flower is before the fruit, so is faith before good works.
Richard Whately
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Richard Whately
Age: 76 †
Born: 1787
Born: February 1
Died: 1863
Died: October 8
Economist
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England
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As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.
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That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.
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Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth but either should set us upon testing ourselves.
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Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.
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