Quote by Jane Austen
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, o

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen

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They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. – Jane Austen

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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. – Huston Smith

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The purpose of all major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

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Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. – Agnes Repplier, Points of View

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So I remember both medicine, because I frequently sick, particularly with asthma for which there was no proper treatment then, and in religion I had a strong sense of there being a patriarchy. – Thomas Keneally

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We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. – Wallace Stevens

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The average persons ear weighs what you are, not what you were. – Francis Quarles

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