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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
from the book "Essays"
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It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
Therefore, as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself, above human frailty.
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone".
The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.
Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled. Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again; and when the hill stood still he was never a whit abashed, but said, "If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
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