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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.
William Kingdon Clifford
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We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not feel the loss, or it may prevent him from using the money badly. But I cannot help doing this great wrong towards Man, that I make myself dishonest.
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Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.
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If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
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He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
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An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe amid the various and complex circumstances of our life.
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In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts.
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Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
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