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A full belly makes a dull brain
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less…
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot…
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I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he…
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Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one…
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I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension…
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When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not…
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Do not, however, mistake me. It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty. On the contrary, 'tis…
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are,…
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back…
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase…
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a…
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The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.
— William Shakespeare
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When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the…
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises…
— Thomas Jefferson
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