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If You Are Affronted It Is Better To Pass It By In Silence, Or With A Jest, Though With Some Dishonor, Than To Endeavor Revenge. If You Can Keep Reason Above Passion, That And Watchfulness Will Be Your Best Defenders.

His Epitaph: Who, By Vigor Of Mind Almost Divine, The Motions And Figures Of The Planets, The Paths Of Comets, And The Tides Of The Seas First Demonstrated.

All Material Things Seem To Have Been Composed Of The Hard And Solid Particles ... Variously Associated With The First Creation By The Counsel Of An Intelligent Agent. For It Became Him Who Created Them To Set Them In Order: And If He Did So, It Is Unphilosophical To Seek For Any Other Origin Of The World, Or To Pretend That It Might Arise Out Of A Chaos By The Mere Laws Of Nature.

The Other Part Of The True Religion Is Our Duty To Man. We Must Love Our Neighbour As Our Selves, We Must Be Charitable To All Men For Charity Is The Greatest Of Graces, Greater Then Even Faith Or Hope & Covers A Multitude Of Sins. We Must Be Righteous & Do To All Men As We Would They Should Do To Us.

This Thing Is But A Puny Imitation Of A Much Grander System Whose Laws You Know, And I Am Not Able To Convince You That This Mere Toy Is Without A Designer Or Maker; Yet You Profess To Believe That The Great Original From Which The Design Is Taken Has Come Into Being Without Either Designer Or Maker! Now Tell Me By What Sort Of Reasoning Do You Reach Such An Incongruous Conclusion?