One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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