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Leslie Stephen
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
Leslie Stephen,
English
Author
#Chance
#Ignorance
#Name
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
Leslie Stephen,
English
Author
#Play
#Man
#Men
#Intellect
#Walking
#Letters
#Recreation
The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.
Leslie Stephen,
English
Author
#Truth
#Falsehood
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Leslie Stephen,
English
Author
#Work
#Nothing
#Study
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
Leslie Stephen,
English
Author
#God
#Words
#People
#State
#Mind
#Doubt
#Atheism
#Theology
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
Leslie Stephen,
English
Author
#Public
#Man
#Service