What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
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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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I have procured air [oxygen] between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.
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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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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process.
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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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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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From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices.
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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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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
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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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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.
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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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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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