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Reason gains all men, by compelling none.
Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark:
And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.Alzira (1736) Act I, Sc. 1 -
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
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Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.
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Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
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Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
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Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.
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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.
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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
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Reason is the enemy of faith.
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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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Reason is the substance of the universe, the design of the world is absolutely rational.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
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Reason over passion.
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