"The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date."
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"Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness."
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"Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time."
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"I look through the grave into heaven."
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"I am conscious of eternal life."
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"The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest."
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"There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men."
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"The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life."
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"I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life."
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"The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world."
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"The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all; and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief."
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"Science is the natural ally of religion."
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"What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind."
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"All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses."
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"For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue."
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"Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself."
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"Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry."
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"Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind."
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"Nature is God's Old Testament."
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"All men desire to be immortal."
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