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• We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversio
  or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration....
• Reason is the test of ridicule- not ridicule the test of truth. -- Warburto
• We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Love is ever the beginning of knoweledge as fire is of light.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historian -- Goeth, Foreign Review, No. 111 (1828)...
• If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. -- Voltaire
• Ridicule is the best test of truth. -- Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Aphorisms by Leonid Sukhorukov * An aphorism is a one-line novel.
  (quoted in an article"Aphorism 2006" by John Leo, editor of "US News and World Report") * Wisdom is the meeting point of doubt and certainty....
• How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?
  -- A. Coope...