I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYBut it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
More Joseph Priestley Quotes
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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
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Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
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The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.
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What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
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Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
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When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
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To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you are desperately miserable you are intensely conscious of yourself, are a solid little lump of ego weighing a ton.
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Too many christians have been chargeable with… confounding the Logos of Plato with that of John , and making of it a second person in the trinity, than which no two things can be more different.
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This is unfortunately a world in which things find it difficult, frequently impossible, to live up to their names.
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