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(About Hell, Man, Punishment)

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.


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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
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I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.
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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
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To be is to be perceived.
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