Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.
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Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.
roger williamsOur world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. […] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.
stephen jay gouldThe sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite.
william shakespeareGod confounds the hearts and eyes of unbelievers.
Love is the tyrant of the heart; it darkens reason, confounds discretion. Deaf to counsel, it runs a headlong course to desperate madness.
John Ford