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The cardinal method with faults is to overgrow them and choke them out with virtues.

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The only way to hasten the kingdom is to hasten growth; to hasten work, and that, too, along the very lines in which the "resounding loom of time" is weaving in its various-colored threads.

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Born: May 1, 1827
Died: October 27, 1911 (aged 84)
Bio: John Bascom was an American professor, college president and writer.
Known for:
  1. Evolution and Religion
  2. Caine's Pestilence
  3. An Historical Interpretation of Philosophy (1893)
  4. The Science of Mind (1881)
  5. Aesthetics: Or, The Science of Beauty (1862)

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