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The Business Of Philosophy Is To Circumnavigate Human Nature.

Many People Make Their Own God; And He Is Much What The French May Mean When They Talk Of Le Bon Dieu,--very Indulgent, Rather Weak, Near At Hand When We Want Anything, But Far Away Out Of Sight When We Have A Mind To Do Wrong. Such A God Is As Much An Idol As If He Were An Image Of Stone.

Children Always Turn Towards The Light. Oh That Grown-up People In This World Became Like Little Children!

A Weak Mind Sinks Under Prosperity, As Well As Under Adversity.

To No Kind Of Begging Are People So Averse, As To Begging Pardon; That Is, When There Is Any Serious Ground For Doing So.