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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.

Joseph Priestley

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Elaborate Knowledge Philosophy
It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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Screaming Soft Violence
This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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Finding Impossible Live Name World
What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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Admire Lesson Myself Respect
When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
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Design God Intelligence Reason World
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
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Color Genius Ourselves Reveal
The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
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Generation Philosophy Reality Time Wisdom
I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Best Goodness Myself Time
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
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Association General Ideas Perfection Willing
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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Discovery Failure Imperfection Knowledge
From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
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Distinct Fame Opinion Practice Soul
Too many christians have been chargeable with… confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
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Charge Different Offense Person Religion
But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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Death Glory Manner
Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
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Greatness Himself Mindset Process Production
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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Criticism Greatness Writing
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
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Equality Himself Importance Man Natural Person Right
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY

Conscious Ego Element Forgiveness Happiness Intense Misery Weigh
It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.
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General Possible Quite Scripture Truth
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
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Creation Discover Doubt Failure Imperfection Knowledge Oneself

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