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Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather

Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age. – Matthew Simpson

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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. – Matthew Simpson

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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. – Matthew Simpson

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If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character. – Matthew Simpson

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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. – George Orwell

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To be told that one can be dependent on ones parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate. – Dennis Prager

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