Belief Quote by Samuel Laman Blanchard

“As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.” quote by Samuel Laman Blanchard — Download Open image

“As success converts treason into legitimacy, so belief converts fiction into fact, and "nothing is but what is not.”

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Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return! whose poetry is too finely spun, whose philosophy is too and mystified for popular demand: perhaps we have experienced feeling which Mr. Wordsworth alludes to, in a poem worthy of simplicity and loneliness of the sentiment "Often have…

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What if two negatives make an affirmative ...does it follow that two nobodies shall be some body?

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The scarcity of truth is atoned for by the abundance of affidavits; if a rumor be impugned, its veracity is easily strengthened by additional…

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Man will take anything you like, except warning.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot…

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