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Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,
Your Maker's praises spout;
Up from the sands ye codlings peep,
And wag your tails about

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

There may be some so very Ignorant, that they know not how to Pray.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

Ah! destructive Ignorance, what shall be done to chase thee out of the World!

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

A Good School deserves to be call'd, the very Salt of the Town, that hath it.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.