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It is not enough to render things equal to the will, that they are equal or alike in themselves.
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Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.
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Believe it, my good friend, to love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in the world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues; and if I mistake not, you have as much of it as I ever met with in anybody.
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We have a right to know or may lawfully know any truth. And a right to know any truth whatsoever implies a right to think freely.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Born:
June 21, 1676
Died:
December 13, 1729
(aged 53)
Bio:
Anthony Collins, was an English philosopher, and a proponent of deism.
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