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Omeone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays
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In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of libery (Essays, Moral, Political and Literary)
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Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. (Essays, Moral, Political and Literary)
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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Collected Essays)
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As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines (Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review 1843)
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. (Essays, 1891)
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It is now several months since I promised to give you my reasons for preferring the Bible as a schoolbook to all other compositions. Before I state my arguments, I shall assume the five following propositions:

1 . That Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.

2. That a better knowledge of this religion is to be acquired by reading the Bible than in any other way.

3. That the Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

4. That knowledge is most durable, and religious instruction most useful, when imparted in early life.

5. That the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life.
- Benjamin Rush, Essays, pp. 93-113, 'A Defence of the Use of the Bible as a School Book'.
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