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If Religion Commands Universal Charity, To Love Our Neighbors As Ourselves, To Forgive And Pray For All Our Enemies Without Any Reserve; It Is Because All Degrees Of Love Are Degrees Of Happiness, That Strengthen And Support The Divine Life Of The Soul, And Are As Necessary To Its Health And Happiness, As Proper Food Is Necessary To The Health And Happiness Of The Body.

The More We Pay For Any Truth, The Better Is Our Bargain.

Receive Every Day As A Resurrection From Death, As A New Enjoyment Of Life; Meet Every Rising Sun With Such Sentiments Of God's Goodness, As If You Had Seen It, And All Things, New-created Upon Your Account: And Under The Sense Of So Great A Blessing, Let Your Joyful Heart Praise And Magnify So Good And Glorious A Creator.

All The Wants Which Disturb Human Life, Which Make Us Uneasy To Ourselves, Quarrelsome With Others, And Unthankful To God, Which Weary Us In Vain Labors And Foolish Anxieties, Which Carry Us From Project To Project, From Place To Place In A Poor Pursuit Of We Don't Know What, Are The Wants Which Neither God, Nor Nature, Nor Reason Hath Subjected Us To, But Are Solely Infused Into Us By Pride, Envy, Ambition, And Covetousness.

Until We Are Renewed In The Spirit Of Our Mind And Illumined In Every Part, Our Very Virtues Are But Taught Practices Grafted Upon A Corrupt Bottom