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The effect of sailing is produced by a judicious arrangement of the sails to the direction of the wind.
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A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when…
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The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the…
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Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others,…
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Mental agitations and eating cares are more injurious to health, and destructive of life, than is commonly imagined, and could their effects…
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The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which…
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Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it…
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The accumulation of numbers always augments in some measure moral corruptions, and the consequences to health of the various vices incident thereto,…
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The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a…
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The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold…
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The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she…
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Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.
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It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that,…
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Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.
— William Shakespeare
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The sciences throw an inexpressible grace over our compositions, even where they are not immediately concerned; as their effects are discernible where…
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The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their…
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions,…
— Adam Sedgwick
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Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I'm writing with the assumption that most of you who are reading this book have concluded what I have: Preaching doesn't workpreaching,…
— Doug Pagitt
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We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games…
— Herb Kohl
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Enough generations of socialist policies have now passed for us to judge their effects. They are bleak. Socialism undermines the character of…
— Dennis Prager
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Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
— Laura Miller
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I don't believe, for instance, that evolutionary biology or any scientific endeavor has much to say about love. I'm sure a lot…
— Greg Graffin
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