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Then waste not thy life in the letter of dispute, argument is death to the voicing of the Truth. Religion debate with none. For it but tends to widen out the breach and thus defeat its ends. Let thine acts declare the life within, happiness doth express the soul that dwells therein. While sadness that bitter fruit which has been here maintained, is the vine from which all life its being drew, Ah friends, this is an error sad indeed, for happiness was the grape from which the wine of life was pressed, not sorrow's prickly pears.