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I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins. — Samuel Adams
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of… — James Madison
The clergy ... believe that any portion of power confided to me [as President] will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe… — Thomas Jefferson
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. — Mark Twain
In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. — Samuel Johnson
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… — Jonathan Swift
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
In the beginning of his human life man was embryonic in the world of the matrix. There he received capacity and endowment for the reality… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments. — Samuel Johnson
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. — Horace
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton
How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we… — William James
Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. — Erich Fromm
Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating… — Thomas Paine
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham
I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't… — Hugh Laurie
Much of the most important evils that mankind have to consider are those which they inflict upon each other through stupidity or malevolence or both. — Bertrand Russell
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts. — W. Somerset Maugham

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