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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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State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the…
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than…
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If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
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I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the…
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
— Seneca the Younger
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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all…
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I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are…
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Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.
— Mary McLeod Bethune
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
— Warren Zevon
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Art is so often better at theology than theology is.
— Christian Wiman
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Our virtues are dearer to us the more we have had to suffer for them. It is the same with our children.…
— George Eliot
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When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man…
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