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If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Isaac Newton

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.
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Cause Effect Natural Possible Science
He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
ISAAC NEWTON

Believe God Heart Thinking
If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.
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Defective Difficult Experiment Invalid Objection Prove Show Theory
Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.
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Body Change Force Impact Motion Persist State Straight Uniform
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
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
Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
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Explanation Leaving
Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.
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Art Error One Liner
Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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Confusion Finding Simplicity Truth
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
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Description Geometry Mathematics Requirement Teaching
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
Let me think – I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple?
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Apple Drops Science Wonder
We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will.
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Body Consider Creature God Member Organ
This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
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Beautiful Intelligence Planet Powerful Proceed Sun System
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.
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Discover Prayer
Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!
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Diamond Done Inspirational Mischief

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

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