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Despair is hope stark dead, presumption is hope stark mad.

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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

In this being may our treatise find its end and fulfillment.

On the contrary, Augustine says (Octog. Tri. Quaest. qu. xlvi),"Such is the power inherent in ideas, that no one can be wise unless they are understood.

For men like William, the need for an audience was a simple fact of knightly life.

What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

Upon the cunning loom of thought We weave our fancies, so and so.

The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.

O Lord, enter not into judgment with thy servant, for no man that liveth shall be justified in thy sight.

O foolish man, for God doth detect every nuance of the sick will!

This is the School of Babylon And at its hand we learn To walk into the furnaces And whistle as we burn.

Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.

Mercy is God's Alpha, justice is His Omega.

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.The reason why I cannot tell;But this alone I know full well,I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.

For Mythology is the handmaid of literature and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.

Ireland is unique in religious history for being the only land into which Christianity was introduced without bloodshed.

Britannia needs no bulwarks,No towers along the steep;Her march is o'er the mountain waves,Her home is on the deep.

Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind.

Ask me no more whither doth hasteThe nightingale when May is past;For in your sweet dividing throatShe winters and keeps warm her note.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

But indeed nobody knows what inarticulate traditions, remnants of old wisdom, priceless though quite anonymous, survive in many modern things that still have life in them.

The Moral Sense Test developed by Harvard psychologists in 2003 can be found online at: moral.wjh.harvard.edu

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!