“ The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation, is ever dangerous. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths. ”
- Tryon Edwards- Copy
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“ Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished. ”
- Ulysses S. Grant- Copy
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“ It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black. ”
- John Selden- Copy
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“ There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. ”
- Mary W. Stewart- Copy
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“ Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. ”
- Harriet Beecher Stowe- Copy
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“ Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
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“ It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ There is no doubt that God has often brought a certain verse to the attention of one of His children in an unusual and almost miraculous manner, for a special need, but the Word was never intended to be consulted in a superstitious manner. ”
- Maxwell S. Coder- Copy
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