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All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.
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Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.…
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The true science and study of mankind is man.
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He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.
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Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions.
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The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study…
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it…
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God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
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We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.
— Oswald Chambers
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
— Adrienne Rich
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Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the…
— Pierre Charron
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When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can…
— Karl Barth
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Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we…
— Eden Phillpotts
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and…
— Wendell Berry
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Bertrand Russell
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Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used…
— David Suzuki
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