Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

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To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.

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Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

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Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

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I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

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The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

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The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one.

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Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

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