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Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.…
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I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose.
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We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's…
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The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white…
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I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it…
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Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions…
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The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it…
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Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the…
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The best servant does his work unseen.
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See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout.
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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces…
— Isaac Newton
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general…
— John Stuart Mill
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To…
— Robert Dallek
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a…
— Nassau William Senior
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