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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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When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again
— Paula Cole
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The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on…
— Richard Rorty
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PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to…
— Thomas Wolfe
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Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.
— Jose Saramago
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Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the…
— David Hume
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Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law…
— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
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