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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitud

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. – Matthew Simpson

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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources. – Matthew Simpson

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Knowledge
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Matthew Simpson
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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others. – Matthew Simpson

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Faith
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment… rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood. – Franz Liszt

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Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. – Francis Quarles

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I wasnt with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it. – Thomas S. Monson

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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith. – Vera Farmiga

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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. Its not really any very heady fame. – Peter Carey

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The day was counting up its birds and never got the answer right. – Author unknown

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Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. – William Cowper

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. – E. B. White

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