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No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the object of revelation to make known; still it places the existence and personal attributes of the Deity on such grounds as to render doubts absurd and atheism ridiculous. - [Reason] Self-respect,--the corner-stone of all virtue. - [Self-respect] The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry. - [Speculation] There is a gentle, but perfectly irresistible coercion in a habit of reading well directed, over the whole tenor of a man's character and conduct, which is not the less effectual because it works insensibly, and because it is really the last thing he dreams of. - [Reading]
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