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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

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Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.

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There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

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A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: June 12th, 1802

Died: June 27th, 1876

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