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the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

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Frances Wright
Age: 57 †
Born: 1795
Born: September 6
Died: 1852
Died: December 13
Philosopher
Writer
City of Dundee
Frances D'Arusmont
Truth
Inexperienced
Ears
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the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.
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... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
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Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool and of many a good man, a knave.
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Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped.
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No man can see his own prejudices.
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The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.
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I never walked through the streets of any city with as much satisfaction as those of Philadelphia. The neatness and cleanliness of all animate and inanimate things, houses, pavements, and citizens, is not to be surpassed.
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Fathers and husbands! do ye not also understand this fact? Do ye not see how, in the mental bondage of your wives and fair companions, ye yourselves are bound?
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Turn your churches into halls of science, and devote your leisure day to the study of your own bodies, the analysis of your own minds, and the examination of the fair material world which extends around you!
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Be not afraid! In admitting a creator, refuse not to examine his creation and take not the assertions of creatures like yourselves, in place of the evidence of your senses and the conviction of your understanding.
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Truth is but approved facts.
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The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.
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Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
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... a nation to be strong, must be united to be united, must be equal in condition to be equal in condition, must be similar inhabits and feeling to be similar in habits and feeling, must be raised in national institutions as the children of a common family, and citizens of a common country.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently, yet more peculiarly the sin of little than of great minds.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.
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