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Truth is strong, and sometime or other will prevail.
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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the…
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The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
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It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.
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None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and…
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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.
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That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it…
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we…
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.…
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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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Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.
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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist.…
— Susan B. Anthony
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In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a…
— Bertrand Russell
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Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
— Thomas de Quincey
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men…
— Edmund Waller
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The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other…
— Victor Wooten
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I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
— Robin Williams
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He that is never on his knees on earth shall never stand upon his feet in heaven
— Charles Spurgeon
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Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own…
— Phillips Brooks
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Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.
— John Bunyan
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A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a…
— H.G. Wells
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Every tub must stand upon its bottom.
— Charles Macklin
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'Wherefore, brethren, thus must ye train yourselves : Liberation of the will through love will develop, we will often practice it, we…
— Gautama Buddha
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