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• It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
• Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.…
• Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
• The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the…
• None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and…
• Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
• The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we…
• Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought…

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