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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!

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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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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Ambition Astronomy Passion Poor Thing
Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
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Home Memories Motivational
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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Carefully Hands Open Thinking
To be happy, one must have a good stomach and a bad heart.
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Happiness Heart Stomach
A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
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Elephants Feet Firsts
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
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Neighbor Ridicule Ridiculous
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
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Beauty Please Tenderness
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
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Conversation Hate War
I detest war; it ruins conversation
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Political Ruin War
Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.
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Math Mind Reflect Time
We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
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Feet Land Pleasure
I have lived one hundred years; and I die with the consolation of never having thrown the slightest ridicule upon the smallest virtue.
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Hundred Virtue Years

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