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"Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence."
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"The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will."
"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."
"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."
"Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live."
"Whatever you believe in, is true " at least to you! The question is, "How positive and empowering is it, especially in the face of adversity?"
"I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman."
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"To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power."
"Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so."
"Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine."
"Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions."
"One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call."
"Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated."
"We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living."
"The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others."
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