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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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" A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. "

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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 corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst. "

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" No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish. "

" It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

" Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. "

" It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. "