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William Warburton

"Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them."

Source : William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.135

William Warburton

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“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
“Laugh at love and love will make you cry.”
“Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.”
“When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.”

Source : "The Walkmen". Interview With Mike Carriere, pitchfork.com. November 25, 2008.
“For truth there is no deadline.”
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
“I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I'm from Miami, which wasn't getting looked at at the time. Three, I'm Cuban. But now, I've made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For your own good, for the good of your family and your future, grow a backbone. When something is wrong, stand up and say it is wrong, and don't back down.”

"Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them."

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