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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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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act?…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they…
— Frederic Bastiat
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How could politics be a science, if laws and forms of government had not a uniform influence upon society? Where would be…
— David Hume
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It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has…
— Carl Jung
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In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more…
— Karl Marx
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Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms…
— Virginia Woolf
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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
— Alexander Crummell
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...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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