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"If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar."
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"It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience."
"Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue."
"Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for."
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"From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery."
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