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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from…
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Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and…
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Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour with you today,…
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Your corn is ripe today, mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both that I should labor with you today,…
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Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and…
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I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.
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God is an ever-present spirit guiding all that happens to a wise and holy end.
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Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.
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The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence,…
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All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials…
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To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a…
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Tis evident that all reasonings concerning matter of fact are founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that we can…
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Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of…
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For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other,…
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Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze…
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The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to…
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There are things which we feel to be good and true, though in the cold light of reason and calculation many things…
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