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20. "As a state of sickness is comparatively rare with a state of
health, happiness the result of health, and the end of the creation
happiness, so the end of the creation is already in a great measure
answered."
21. "Pleasure tends to continue and propagate itself, pain to check
and exterminate itself."
22. "As our knowledge and power in respect to shunning pains and
procuring pleasures advance with our experience, nothing is wanting
to enable us to exterminate all pains, but a continuance of being.
23. "Our enjoyments continually increase in real value from infancy
to old age."
24. "A future moral distribution is probable, because God is
infinitely powerful and wise."
25. "Since reverence, gratitude, obedience, confidence are duties to
men, so they are to God; and as we pray to men, so we should pray to
God."
26. "Prescience, predetermination and infinite benevolence are no
argument against prayer to the Deity."
27. "A wish produced by nature is evidence of the thing wished for,
but a future state is wished for, therefore there is evidence of a
future state."
28. "As we have no idea how we came originally to be produced, for
what we know to the contrary our reproduction may be as much the
course of nature as our original production.."
29. "A gloom and melancholy belong more to atheists than to devout
people.
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