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Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.
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Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
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Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.
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If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
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There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.
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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
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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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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
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Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
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