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The problem of to-day is not how to convert the heathen from heathenism, it is how to convert the Christian from heathenism; not to teach the physician to heal the patient, but to heal himself.
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Hoar critiques the need for Christians to address their own moral failings rather than focusing solely on converting others.
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It would have been a worse civil war than that of the Rebellion, because the country would have been divided not by sections, but by parties.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
Self-seeking political adventurers and demagogues have not been slow to take advantage of this feeling for their own purposes.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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