"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character."
-Hosea Ballou
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"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.“
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."
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"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."
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"Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit."
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"Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams."
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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that."
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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."
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"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple the philosophy is kindness."
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"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."
-David Herbert Lawrence
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