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The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.
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Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
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Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.
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An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed.
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Discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties.
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Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
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The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.
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In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.
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The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.
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The Virginians have little money and great pride, contempt of Northern men, and great fondness for a dissipated life. They do not understand grammar.
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Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.
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No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.
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The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.
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To exterminate our popular vices is a work of far more importance to the character and happiness of our citizens than any other improvements in our system of education.
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The Bible is the chief moral cause of all that is good and the best corrector of all that is evil in human society; the best book for regulating the temporal [secular] concerns of men.
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Correcting his wife's language after she had caught him with a chambermaid:
Mrs Webster:
Noah, I'm surprised.
Noah Webster:
No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.
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When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.
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All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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Born:
October 16, 1758
Died:
May 28, 1843
(aged 84)
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