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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
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We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth…
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And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but…
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And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.
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It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we…
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That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our…
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The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.
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The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that…
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Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.
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To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to…
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Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation.
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That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our being mistaken…
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We ought to consider the interests of animals because they have interests and it is unjustifiable to exclude them from the sphere…
— Peter Singer
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
— John Herschel
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The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that…
— Joseph Glanvill
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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.…
— Frederick Buechner
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We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence…
— Deepak Chopra
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The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.
— Bertrand Russell
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man…
— John Selden
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Though Will was saying earlier,” Tessa added, “that heroes all come to bad ends, and he could not imagine why anyone would…
— Cassandra Clare
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It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the…
— Maimonides
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
— John Herschel
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... in the fierce competition ofmodern society the only class left in the country possessing leisure is that of women supported in…
— Unknown Author
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