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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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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in…
— William Blake
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Art is significant deformity.
— Roger Fry
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Ashamed of the many frailties they feel within, all men endeavor to hide themselves, their ugly nakedness, from each other, and wrapping…
— Bernard de Mandeville
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Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.
— Dean Acheson
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Thou lump of foul deformity!
— William Shakespeare
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to…
— Max Beerbohm
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I was born with lots of deformities.
— Gemma Arterton
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly…
— Patrick Henry
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By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,…
— Margaret Sanger
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My coat and I live comfortably togther. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on…
— Victor Hugo
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