Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
JONATHAN SWIFTIt is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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Books, the children of the brain.
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Many a truth is told in jest.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.
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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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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
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