William Paley Quotes

What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power

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White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion

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God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

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[Darwin acknowledged in his autobiography that as a young man he was] charmed and convinced.. The marks of design are too strong to be got over. Design must have had a designer. That designer must have been a person. That person is GOD.

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The infidelity of the Gentile world, and that more especially of men of rank and learning in it, is resolved into a principle which, in my judgment, will account for the inefficacy of any argument, or any evidence whatever, viz. Contempt prior to investigation.

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