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Religion Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
- If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what…
- We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render…
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion
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