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- Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of…
- I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
- Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of the…
- I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
- I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility…
- To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer,…
- As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.
- Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it…
- I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely…
- "It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the…
- Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of…
- We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
- From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful…
- There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive.
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
- I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of…
- I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.
- I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are…
- I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.
- I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
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