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There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. – John Calvin

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There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God. – John Calvin

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Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. – John Calvin

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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. – John Calvin

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Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. – Louis Pasteur

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The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind. – Phaedrus

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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. – James Clavell

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