To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances. - William Kingdon Clifford

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The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

William Kingdon Clifford

To know all about anything is to know how to deal with it under all circumstances.

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A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions.

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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.

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All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.

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It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.

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No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

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