Jonathan Swift Quotes About Belief
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
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Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.
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It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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