"Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end."
-Tryon Edwards
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"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.“
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"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
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"Any act often repeated soon forms a habit and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel."
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"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."
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"Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven."
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."
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