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“To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun.”

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Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.

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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

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Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their…

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“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint…

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“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be super-heresies, and Arians not onely divided from their Church, but also among themselves: for heads that are disposed unto Schisme...are naturally indisposed for a community, nor will ever be confined unto the order or oeconomy of…

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Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.

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Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in…

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Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.

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“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the care, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Whatever is harmonically composed delights in harmony; which makes…

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Death is the cure for all diseases.

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Lord deliver me from myself.

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The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.

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Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty…

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Moderation, honey, in all things but love and chocolate. That's my motto.

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There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

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What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base…

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When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the creator of all things. And they also deepened my sensitivity towards creation itself so that concern for God's creatures and animal rights followed from that. Some people think I'm an animal rights person who just happens, almost incidentally,…

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It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

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