Quote by William Hazlitt
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion. – William Hazlitt

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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our firends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us. – William Hazlitt

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The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt

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Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true. – Thomas Paine

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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God. – William Ames

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Religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself. – Kary Mullis

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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off Thought for the Day when it comes on the radio. – A. N. Wilson

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