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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

Jonathan Swift

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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Age Growth Miracle Religion
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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Blessing Exception Innocence Power Protection
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Accident Believe Fall Philosophy Universe
And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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Best Conversation Reason Rule
It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.
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Insect Life Live Misery
The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot, to be easy without it.
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Best Coffee Easy Life Yourself
Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.
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Coward Cruelty People
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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Appearance Genius Himself True
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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Mistake Person Responsibility
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.
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Block Easy Greatness Himself Man Walk
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.
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Content Greatness Learning Man Palace Time
How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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Advice Expectation Kind Man Possible Warning
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
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Man One Liner Wisdom Young
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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Growth Shame Wisdom Wrong Yourself
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Easy Light Reason Ride
Vision is seeing the invisible.
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Invisible One Liner Vision

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