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Reason lies between the bridle and the spur. (Alger William R.)
Everyone has his reasons. (Alger William R.)
I got fame and fortune, and I lost my sense of reasoning. (Alger William R.)
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. (Alger William R.)
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. (Alger William R.)
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. (Alger William R.)
Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. (Alger William R.)
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. (Alger William R.)
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. (Alger William R.)
Sure, he, that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason, to fast in us unused. (Alger William R.)
Strong reasons make strong actions. (Alger William R.)
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out. (Alger William R.)
The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest. (Alger William R.)
Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason. (Alger William R.)
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off. (Alger William R.)
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. (Alger William R.)
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason. (Alger William R.)
Reason over passion. (Alger William R.)
Man always has two reasons for the things he does; the logical one and the real one. (Alger William R.)
Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. (Alger William R.)
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. (Alger William R.)
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