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Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, everyone should be serene, slow-pulsed and calm.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.

A mortgage casts a shadow on the sunniest field.

If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne.

What light is to the eyes--what air is to the lungs--what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.

By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.