We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

Joseph Priestley
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  1. In all controversies, it is better to wait the decisions of time, which are slow and sure, than to take those of synods, which are often hasty and injudicious

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  3. "Orthodoxy my Lord " said Bishop Warburton in a whisper - "orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy."

  4. What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

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