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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."
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"The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of."

"Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed."

"Happiness or satisfaction consists only in the enjoyment of those objects which are by nature suited to our several particular appetites, passions, and affections."

"Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you."

"Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others."

"Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others."

"Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature."

"Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?"

"Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it."

"The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written."
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