“There is a boundary to the understanding, and when it is reached, faith is the continuation of reason.”

—  William Adams

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 219.

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Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford 1706–1789

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