"There is a lust in man no charm……" — William Harvey
"There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die."
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William Harvey
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17 Quotes by William Harvey
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All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
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I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers…
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And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other…
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Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her…
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The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their…
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Doctrine once sown strikes deep its root, and respect for antiquity influences all men.
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The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the…
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Memory cannot exist without endurance of the things perceived, and the thing perceived cannot remain where it has never been.
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There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from…
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I avow myself the partisan of truth alone.
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As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to…
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This organ deserves to be styled the starting point of life and the sun of our microcosm just as much…
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More Actions Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
— Aristotle
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
— Red Auerbach
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which…
— Teresa of Avila
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.
— Abu Bakr
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If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
— John Quincy Adams
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed,…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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