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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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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.
— Leo Tolstoy
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How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!
— George Eliot
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the…
— Erica Jong
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The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no…
— Henry John Stephen Smith
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Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
— David Hume
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
— Erica Jong
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Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.
— James Howell
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In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears…
— Joaquin Phoenix
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The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to…
— Conor Cruise O'Brien
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