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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is…
— Francis Bacon
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I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is…
— Francis Bacon
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I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
— James A. Garfield
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But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the…
— David Hume
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Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited…
— Harold S. Kushner
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I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.
— Deborah Feldman
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People would rather believe than know.
— E. O. Wilson
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I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
— Alexandre Dumas
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Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a…
— Unknown Author
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the…
— Epictetus
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