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Quote by Walter Scott
There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as wel

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine. – Walter Scott

Other quotes by Walter Scott

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott

Category:
Carpe Diem
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Walter Scott
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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Poetry
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Walter Scott
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Other Quotes from
Religion
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. – Hannah More

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Religion

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. – Paul Tournier

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Religion

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. – Voltaire

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Religion

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. – Anita Brookner

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Religion

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He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. – James Gibbons Huneker

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Wisdom

Bambi cant act. Bambi had major attitude. – Treat Williams

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