Quotes 141 till 160 of 197.
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
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Some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
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Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
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Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
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The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
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The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225 -
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
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