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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

To be an atheist requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which atheism would deny

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

The truest end of life, is to know the life that never ends