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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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Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows,…
— Santoka Taneda
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Every day we're given a choice: We can relax and float in the direction that the water flows, or we can swim…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
— Margaret Atwood
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Water flows uphill towards money.
— Marc Reisner
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Gossip, unlike river water, flows both ways.
— Michael Korda
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The fact that different cultures have different practices no more refutes [moral] objectivism than the fact that water flows in different directions…
— David Hume
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Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our…
— Mencius
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The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the…
— Mencius
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The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass…
— Will Rogers
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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people.…
— Morihei Ueshiba
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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody…
— Theodore White
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Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
— Philip Yancey
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