It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery … - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word.

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Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

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A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

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No religion ever appeared in the world whose natural tendency was so much directed to promote the peace and happiness of mankind. It makes right reason a law in every possible definition of the word. And therefore, even supposing it to have been purely a human invention, it had been the most amiable and the most useful invention that was ever imposed on mankind for their good.

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The confirmed prejudices of a thoughtful life are as hard to change as the confirmed habits of an indolent life; and as some must trifle away age because they trifled away youth, others must labor on in a maze of error because they have wandered there too long to find their way out.

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To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

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