Quote by John Morley
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a cr

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. – John Morley

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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John Morley

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What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion. – Geraldine Ferraro

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The Theologian is an owl, sitting on an old dead branch in the tree of human knowledge, and hooting the same old hoots that have been hooted for hundreds and thousands of years, but he has never given a hoot for progress. – Emmet F. Fields

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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion. – Lytton Strachey

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Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. – William Blake

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