--SENECA.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable.
--JOUBERT.
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind;
the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.--LAVATER.
The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any
day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of
his understanding.--DR. WATTS.
Superstition is a senseless fear of God; religion, the pious worship
of God.--CICERO.
Superstition renders a man a fool, and scepticism makes him mad.
--FIELDING.
I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and
detesting superstition.--VOLTAIRE.
SYMPATHY.--Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.
It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are
but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious
quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no
personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.--TALFOURD.
To commiserate is sometimes more than to give; for money is external
to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own
soul.--MOUNTFORD.
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad
track,--but one inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
--BEECHER.
The greatest pleasures of which the human mind is susceptible are the
pleasures of consciousness and sympathy.
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