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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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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what…
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided.…
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One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.
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Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she…
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Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about…
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