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If the omniscient author of nature knew that the study of his works tends to make men disbelieve his Being or Attributes,…
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Acid Salts have the Power of Destroying the Blewness of the Infusion of our Wood [lignum nephreticum], and those Liquors indiscriminatly that…
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If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making fixed bodies…
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And when with excellent Microscopes I discern in otherwise invisible Objects the Inimitable Subtlety of Nature's Curious Workmanship; And when, in a…
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The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over…
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But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or…
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God [is] the author of the universe, and the free establisher of the laws of motion.
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The book of nature is a fine and large piece of tapestry rolled up, which we are not able to see all…
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every…
— William Hazlitt
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There are two kinds of Riya - Showing off-Ostentation ie pure ostentation and adulterated ostention. In pure ostentation "Riya" a man does…
— Al-Ghazali
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Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The experience of the ages that are past, the hopes of the ages that are yet to come, unite their voices in…
— Horace Mann
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Had there not been five bad qualities, all the people would have been righteous. Contentment with ignorance; love for worldly life; miserliness…
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided…
— Henry Mackenzie
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