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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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It takes a vice to check a vice, and virtue is the by-product of a stalemate between opposite vices.
— Eric Hoffer
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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt…
— David Hume
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It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as…
— Alexander Fraser Tytler
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It is convention and arbitrary rewards which make all the merit and demerit of what we call vice and virtue.
— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.
— Dorothy Parker
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Vice is its own reward.
— Quentin Crisp
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A vice is merely a pleasure to which somebody has objected.
— Robin Skelton
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Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
— Alexander Pope
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There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can…
— Charles Dickens
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