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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. ...
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with sim ...
That the corruption of the best things produces the worst, is grown into a maxim, and is commonly proved, among other instances, b ...
Enthusiasm, being the infirmity of bold and ambitious tempers, is naturally accompanied with a spirit of liberty; as superstition, ...
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of our ...
History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Groundless superstition ill befits an army; valor is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.
But superstition, like belief, must die,
And what remains when disbelief has gone?
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"Be careful what you do,
Or Mumbo-Jumbo, god of the Congo,
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[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.
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