"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed."
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"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.“
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."
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"If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future."
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"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
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