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Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so Who art not missed by any that entreat.— E. B. BROWNING — Comfort.
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.— BURKE — Speech on Conciliation with
America. The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.— BURKE — Reflections on the Revolution in
S. France. The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.— BURKE — A Vindication of Natural Society. Preface. Vol. 1. P. 7.
People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion. *** "What religion?" *** the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."— BISHOP BURNET — History of his Own Times. Vol. I. Bk. I. Sec. 97.
Footnote. See also BENJ. DISRAELI-Endymion. Ch. LXXXI. An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!— BURNS — Epistle to a Young Friend.
G-knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be, Just for a screen.— BURNS — Epistle to Rev. John M' Math. St. 8.
One religion is as true as another.— BURTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Bk. III. Sec. IV. Memb. 2.
Subsec. I. As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended. C.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 205.
So, ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sects, The maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after every swarm its own.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. III. Canto II. L. 7.
Synods are mystical Bear-gardens, Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of the Court, Manage the Babylonish sport.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto III. L. 1,095.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto II. St. 34.
His religion at best is an anxious wish,like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.— CARLYLE — Essays. Burns.
On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration.— CARLYLE — Essays. Voltaire.
The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.— CHURCHILL — Epistle to Hogarth. L. 25.
Religion, the pious worship of God.— CICERO
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet atheism, Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, Drops his blue-fring'd lids, and holds them close, And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, Cries out, "Where is it?"— COLERIDGE — Fears in Solitude.
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but-live for it.— C. C. COLTON — Lacon. Vol. I. XXV.
Nam quæ voluptate, quasi mercede aliquâ, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis. That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue.— CICERO — Academici. IV. 46.