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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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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all…
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Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of happiness.
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Instead of complaining at his lot, a contented man is thankful that his condition and circumstances are no worse than they are.…
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Even when we know what is right, too often we fail to act. More often we grab greedily for the day, letting…
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What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but…
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The two men were greedily hunched over the table, like two wolves disputing a carcass, but their muttered speech in the echoing…
— Jan Neruda
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for…
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The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches…
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
— Michel de Montaigne
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The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.
— David Hume
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The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that…
— Frederick Lenz
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Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury,…
— Xunzi
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