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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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Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then…
— Leo Buscaglia
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…
— Walter Pater
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.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.
— David Hume
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I'm fortunate enough that every job I do seems to be, at the very least, teaching me something fantastic. I make new…
— Nathan Fillion
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Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.
— George Santayana
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Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though…
— David Foster Wallace
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American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just…
— David Foster Wallace
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Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.
— William Feather
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So something about that touched me, obviously, when I was young and it just stayed with me. I'm always amazed by that,…
— Andrew McCarthy
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