Quote by Marguerite Blessington
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the con

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

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Tears fell from my eyes–yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed. – Marguerite Blessington

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

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The superstition in which we grew up,
Though we may recognize it, does not lose
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Who make mock of their chains. – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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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 is an unreasoning fear of God. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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