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The greatest Inventions were ...

The greatest Inventions were produced in Times of Ignorance; as the Use of the Compass, Gunpowder, and Printing; and by the dullest Nation, as the Germans.

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Nature has left every man a c...

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

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He had been eight years upon ...

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

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Physicians ought not to give ...

Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.

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The two noblest of things, wh...

The two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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I have now lost my barrier be...

I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.

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How often do we contradict th...

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but the reason of every particular man is weak and wavering, perpetually swayed and turned by his interests, his passions, and his vices.

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Very few men, properly speaki...

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

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If they would, for Example, p...

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.

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I know Sir John will go, thou...

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

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I must complain the cards are...

I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.

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What we call the Irish Brogue...

What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.

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Simplicity, without which no ...

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

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It is a miserable thing to li...

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

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The sciences are found, like ...

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

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You can't make a silk purse o...

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

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No man will take counsel, but...

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

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There's none so blind as they...

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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The first springs of great ev...

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

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Everyone desires long life, n...

Everyone desires long life, not one old age.

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