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A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.

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That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

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Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

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O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

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