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Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him "all the kingdoms… — John Owen
Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see… — John Bunyan
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad… — Mark Twain
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds… — James Clerk Maxwell
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some… — John Stuart Mill
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government. — John William Draper
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine… — George Wald
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be… — John B. S. Haldane
The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate… — Eugene Ionesco
I think that we shall have to get accustomed to the idea that we must not look upon science as a 'body of knowledge,' but… — Karl Popper
God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the… — George MacDonald
The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot… — John Taylor Gatto
I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. . . It gives… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object. — George Henry Lewes
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. — Aldous Huxley
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. — Doug Larson
Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his… — William Penn
We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer. — Josh Billings
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence. — Samuel Beckett
Under my head till morning; but the rain, Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh, Upon the glass and listen for reply.... — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Do each daily task the best we can; act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. — William Feather

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