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A Wise Man Looks Upon Men As He Does On Horses; All Their Caparisons Of Title, Wealth, And Place, He Considers But As Harness.

Faith Makes All Evil Good To Us, And All Good Better; Unbelief Makes All Good Evil, And All Evil Worse.

Every Man Is An Original And Solitary Character. None Can Either Understand Or Feel The Book Of His Own Life Like Himself.

An Idle Man Has A Constant Tendency To Torpidity. He Has Adopted The Indian Maxim That It Is Better To Walk Than To Run, And Better To Stand Than To Walk, And Better To Sit Than To Stand, And Better To Lie Than To Sit. He Hugs Himself Into The Notion, That God Calls Him To Be Quiet.

The Only Instance Of Praying To Saints, Mentioned In The Bible, Is That Of The Rich Man In Torment Calling Upon Abraham; And Let It Be Remembered, That It Was Practised Only By A Lost Soul And Without Success.