People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from An example of good and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.Blaise Pascal
It is your own assent to yourself, and the constant voice of your own reason, and not of others, that should make you believe.
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Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
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In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
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The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
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