"It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her."
-James Hal Cone
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"I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind."
-Saint Bernard
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"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs."
-Wayne Newton
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"Faith is a higher faculty than reason."
-H. C. Bailey
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"I've always had great faith in people."
-Wayne Newton
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"I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey."
-Joanna Trollope
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