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- It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance; for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
- William Carleton
- To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
- W. J. Vogel
- Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
- Alexander Hodge
- If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
- Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
- To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
- Stanislaw Leszczynski (1677 - 1766)
- Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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