"Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce."
-Walter Savage Landor
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"Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.“
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"Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him."
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"In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always."
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"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose."
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"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven."
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