"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit." — Nathanael Emmons

"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

— Nathanael Emmons

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21 Quotes by Nathanael Emmons

Nathanael Emmons has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide…
Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will…
How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe;…
Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in…
Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than…
Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the…
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. — Jane Austen
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as… — Saint Basil
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his… — David Bowie
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. — Sitting Bull
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise. — Leo Buscaglia
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking… — Raymond Chandler
The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the… — Hugo Chavez
Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people. — John Cleese
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. — Seneca the Younger
It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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