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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
— Thomas Huxley
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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the…
— Walter Bagehot
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To have recourse to the veracity of the supreme Being, in order to prove the veracity of our senses, is surely making…
— David Hume
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There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the…
— Thomas Huxley
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Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer…
— Roy DeCarava
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Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid…
— Hafez
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No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with…
— Samuel Johnson
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Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity…
— Jon Krakauer
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I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the…
— Nancy Spero
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One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions,…
— Helen Keller
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