Date: 1793
"The tendency of all false systems of political institution is to render the mind lethargic and torpid."
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Date: 1793
"It is of great importance that this idea should be extirpated."
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Date: 1793
"Mind will never arrive at the true tone of energy, till we feel that moral liberty and discretion are mere creatures of the imagination"
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Date: 1793
"Religion is a principle which the practice of all ages has deeply impressed upon the mind."
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Date: 1793
"But it is certain that truth is adequate to awaken the mind without the aid of adversity"
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Date: 1793
"For that purpose, thoroughly understand it yourself, impregnate your mind with its evidence, and speak from the clearness of your view, and the fulness of conviction."
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Date: 1793
"It is not to the sound of intellectual health that the remedy so urgently addresses itself, as to those who are infected with diseases of the mind. "
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Date: 1793
The extirpation of error "frees us from the influence of those phantoms which before misled us, shows us our true advantage as consisting in independence and integrity, and binds us by the general consent of our fellow citizens to the dictates of reason, more strongly than with fetters of iron."
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Date: 1793
"Mind will frequently burst forth, but its appearance will be like the corruscations of the meteor, not like the mild illumination of the sun"
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