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Joseph Priestley has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding…
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It pleased God to make one nation the medium of all His communications with mankind: This the nation of the Jews has…
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his…
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just…
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as…
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before,…
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It is a very grave matter to be forced to imitate a people for whom you know-which is the price of your…
— James A. Baldwin
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I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.
— Frank Buchman
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The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit…
— Diane Sawyer
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Thank heaven, I am free and safe at last!
— Anne Bronte
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Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances.
— Seymour Cray
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If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving…
— Aldous Huxley
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The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You…
— George Wald
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must…
— Gustave Flaubert
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Man is a wretch without woman; but woman is a monster-and thank Heaven, an almost impossible and hitherto imaginary monster--without man, as…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
— John le Carre
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