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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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Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would…
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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 true my form is something odd, but blaming me is blaming God.
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Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light?…
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If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.
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CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another. When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was…
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Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world…
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When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give…
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Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?
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Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail…
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You’re my dream, Alaric McCabe. And I love you. I’ve loved you from the moment your horse dumped you at my cottage.…
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