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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.
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The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty.
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither…
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From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?
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The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.
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The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,…
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The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.
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It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take…
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt…
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The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.
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Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.
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Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and…
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— Saint Augustine
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Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as…
— Annie Besant
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We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
— John Churton Collins
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
— Holbrook Jackson
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Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
— Livy
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We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.
— Lyman Beecher
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So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our…
— Edward Dahlberg
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A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.…
— Jose Rizal
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Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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