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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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Yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
— Thomas Browne
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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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Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice…
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Revenge proves it's own executioner.
— John Ford
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Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the…
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But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
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Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
— Elie Wiesel
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I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
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