"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
-John Locke
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"It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.“
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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
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"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
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"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure."
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"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
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