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Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith

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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Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. – Matthew Simpson

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Presidents Day
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Matthew Simpson
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Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. – Matthew Simpson

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Education
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. – J. William Fulbright

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You can almost see voters nodding their heads at home: The publics faith in politicians and political institutions has been on a steep and dangerous decline for decades, because elected leaders fail to deliver. – Ron Fournier

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Faith

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. – Anna Letitia Barbauld

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Faith

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason. – Blaise Pascal

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We never forgive those who make us blush. – Jean-Francois De La Harpe

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Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because theyre alive and human. – Albert Ellis

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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life – and only then will I be free to become myself. – Martin Heidegger

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