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no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.


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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
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"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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HERMANN HESSE
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C.S. LEWIS
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BIBLE
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but...
BIBLE
Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
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MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO
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JOSEPH CONRAD
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ANONYMOUS
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BIBLE
No man or woman shall dictate my character, behavior or worth.
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall posses...
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as...
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He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall t...
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be dif...
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Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.
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And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and ...
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I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
No man shall be more exacting of me or my conduct than I am of myself.
KARL G. MAESER
He that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death. Exodus 21:17
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Commemoration of John Mason Neale, Priest, Poet, 1866 Christ was common to all in love, in teach...
JAN VAN RUYSBROECK
But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of t...
BIBLE
The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine: Which shall rule �...
EDWARD G. RYAN
For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou...
BIBLE
There is no reason to feel lost, for: Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost, No birth, identit...
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We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish...
WINSTON CHURCHILL
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall...
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Let me speak plainly: The United States of America is and must remain a nation of openness to people...
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And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the wa...
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Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst tim...
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ANATOLE FRANCE
He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
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Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw...
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My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be signific...
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He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
BIBLE
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JEFF VANDERMEER
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JOHN OWEN
Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!
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When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell.
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MARY LYON
And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters...
BIBLE
All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be t...
EDWIN M. STANTON
Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: none of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, no...
BIBLE
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BIBLE
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS
For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
JULIAN OF NORWICH
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
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The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to ...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI
Religious fundamentalist haters and terrorists are not just saying that those who disagree with them...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sunderered, but shall be the prize o...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Fools can't understand even the gist by reading repeatedly the whole book; wise could comprehend eas...
ANUJ SOMANY
A wicked feels proud to see the crowd around oneself often, but a wise feels it is nice to spend mos...
ANUJ SOMANY
There is no surprise that every person’s words or thoughts have inherent voice and that clearly re...
ANUJ SOMANY
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ANUJ SOMANY
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in t...
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Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
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And lastly, let us provide in our constitution for its revision at stated periods.
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Here was buried Thomas Jefferson author of the Declaration of American Independence of the Statute o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
There are two sides to every question, because, when there are no longer two sides it ceases to be a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to admit it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Power is not alluring to pure minds
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations...entangling alliances with none
THOMAS JEFFERSON
For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When the moral sense is wanting, we endeavor to supply the defect by education, by appeals to reason...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
That government is best which governs least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feeling...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil s...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I agree with yours of the 22d that a professorship of Theology should have no place in our instit...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
If you want something you've never had
You must be willing to do something you've never done.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good gener...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you w...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbeliev...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work Plato's R...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by renderi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nati...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When angry, count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of m...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then mo...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is part of the American character to consider nothing as desperate -- to surmount every difficult...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolish...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time t...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by th...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his god, that he owes...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate ob...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I have no ambition to govern men. It is a painful and thankless office
THOMAS JEFFERSON
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fi...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my fam...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
We seldom report of having eaten too little.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Tranquility is the old man's milk.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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