"The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God."

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[H]ow do I pity those who (assuming the name of friends) surround themselves with maxims importing the wisdom of doubt and suspicion, 'til they impose on themselves that very hard task of laboring through life without ever knowing a human creature to whom they can make the proper use of language and freely speak the dictates of their hearts!

— Sarah Fielding