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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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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence.…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an…
— Frances Perkins
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Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.
— George Washington
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to…
— David Lloyd George
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If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any…
— George Washington
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The great workman of nature is time.
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.
— Unknown Author
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or…
— Unknown Author
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I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.
— Unknown Author
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Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open.
— Benjamin Franklin
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