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I do not believe in infallible men, nor in an infallible church, nor in an infallible book

— Benjamin Fish Austin

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To know the Truth, to love the Truth, and to live the Truth is the whole duty of man.

Sermon (1899)

Is God asleep that he should cease to be all that he was to the prophets of the past?

Sermon (1899)

It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago.

Sermon (1899)

Truth is the daughter of God, and in all her attributes God-like and eternal. Truth never depreciates in value

Sermon (1899)

The creeds are not changing as rapidly as the beliefs of the people, nor as rapidly as most men of progressive mind desire

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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