Francis Wright

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. ↗

— Francis Wright

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A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence. ↗

— Francis Wright

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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself. ↗

— Francis Wright

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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Man has been adjudged a social animal. ↗

— Francis Wright

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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change? ↗

— Francis Wright

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