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" No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed. "

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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. "

" There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. "

" Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. "

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" That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. "

" 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. "

" Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous. "

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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 rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason. "

" Custom is the great guide to human life. "

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

" Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. "

" There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it. "

" A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. "

" The law always limits every power it gives. "

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" The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. "

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