John Arbuthnot Quotes

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• All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
• Law is a bottomless pit.
• Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the…
• Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
• The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to…
• The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind from Error and…
• Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
• Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard…
• It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force…
• Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
• He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
• The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error…
• The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close…
• John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.

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