There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.
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Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.
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Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.
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Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.
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