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• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
• The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding…
• It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has…
• But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
• It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
• Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his…
• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
• This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
• To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…
• Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as…
• What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,…

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