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Number three is always fortunate. - Tobias George Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, quoted as a well-known proverb 'Tis a history Handed from ages down; a nurse's tale-- Which children, open-ey'd and mouth'd, devour; And thus as garrulous ignorance relates, We learn it and believe. - Robert Southey Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is. on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. - Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein), see Abel Stevens' "Life of Madame de Stael", ch. XXXIV The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton Superstition moulds nature into an arbitrary semblance of the supernatural, and then bows down to the work of its own hands. - John Sterling Men are probably nearer to the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science. - Henry David Thoreau I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding. - Isaac Watts Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising. - Archbishop Richard Whately Displaying page 3 of 3 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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