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Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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Christianity promises to make men free it never promises to make them independent.
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
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Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.
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The church that is married to the spirit of this age, becomes a widow in the next.
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