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A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

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The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.

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The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.

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There is a crack in everything God has made.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the fallin...more

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Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those most sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God with...more

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If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the ci...more

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As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the...more

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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blad...more

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the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, in...more