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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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The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity. – 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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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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