William Gilbert Quotes

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• The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.
• If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; you must stir it and stump it, and blow your own…
• A lodestone is a wonderful thing in very many experiments, and like living things. And one of its remarkable virtues in that which the ancients…
• Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse.
• The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well.
• Philosophy is for the few.
• The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.
• You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
• O that the gods would bring to a miserable end such fictitious, crazy, deformed labours, with which the minds of the studious are blinded!
• We will hang you, never fear, Most politely, most politely.
• He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
• And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

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