Quote by William Hazlitt
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes t

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation. – William Hazlitt

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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

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Curmudgeonesque
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols — it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. – William Hazlitt

Category:
Superstition
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism. – Edward Abbey

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Superstition

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Superstition

It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. – Proverb

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Superstition

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence. – Marguerite Blessington

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Superstition

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