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- The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium…
- We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is…
- Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss…
- Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so…
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