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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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Leave women to find their sphere.
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So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been…
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If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline…
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We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have…
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Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.
— Lucy Stone
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In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at…
— Alexander Pope
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the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from…
— David Hume
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The professional is acutely aware of the intangibles that go into inspiration. Out of respect for them, she lets them work. She…
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People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their…
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