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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.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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A man finds no sweeter voice in all the world than that which chants his praise.
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Chants Men Voice World
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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Art Degree Future Invented Moo
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
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Regret Silence World
Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.
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Future Knows
Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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Grace Neatness Womanhood
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
Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
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Enlighted Future Light Stars
It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
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Happiness Obstacles
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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Astronomy Daughter Science
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
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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There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.
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Art Three Understanding
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.
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Knowing Pretension Speak
Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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Natural Nature Science
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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Knowledge Nothing Science World
A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
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Earth Fool Heaven

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