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1. What shadows we are, and what what shadows we pursue!
2. He censures God who quarrels with the imperfections of men.
3. Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover, but for God's sake, let us pass on!
4. "Men qualify for freedom in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power is put somewhere on will and appetite, and the less of it there is within, the more their must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
5. True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt the whole fabric cannot be stable or lasting.
6. "Nothing can be so unworthy of a well-composed soul as to pass away life in bickerings and litigations, in snarling and scuffling with every one around us."
7. "The weapons with which the ill dispositions of the world are to be combated are moderation, gentleness, a little indulgence of others, and a great distrust of ourselves."
8. "There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."
9. "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
10. "Man is by his constitution a religious animal."
11. "One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."
