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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Certain Difficulty Last Words
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
BERNARD LE BOVIER DE FONTENELLE

Knowing Pretension
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants
Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.
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Running Self
It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.

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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
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Last Words
Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
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Astronomy Thing
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools

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A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Fool
The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
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Invented Moo
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

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Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Knows
The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.

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The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
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Differences Ordinary Watches
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
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Nothing
Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
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Philosopher
They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.
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Watches
People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.

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People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
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Knowing

I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

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