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Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

Isaac Newton

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.
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Friendship Prefer Truth
If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.
ISAAC NEWTON

Business Deep Inspirational People Stay Tool
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Blind Color God Ideas Man Manner Understand Wise
I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.
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Accomplishment Celibacy Consider Greatness Life
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Clear Constant Inquiry Light Subject
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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Religion Science
The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.
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Agent Alone Cause Impression Intelligence Natural Planet Science Spring
God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.
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Body God Imagination Relative Respect Servant World
Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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Kindness Nonsense One Liner Poetry
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
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Admit Appearance Cause Explanation Nature Sufficient
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.
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Mathematics Men Old
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
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Always God Substain Substance Virtual Viture
If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe Business Positive Result Success Thinking
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
ISAAC NEWTON

Explanation Gravity Motion Planet Science

Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.

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