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Joseph Glanvill Quotes: It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.
         

It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most certain and assured.


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Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.



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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.



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And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.



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It is the great beauty of true religion that it shall be universal, and a departure in any instance from universality is a corruption of religion itself.



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Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.



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The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.



The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.

The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden.



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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.



They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.

They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of their receptions.





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