In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEYWhen 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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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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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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It is no use speaking in soft, gentle tones if everyone else is shouting.
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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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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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The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.
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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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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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But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.
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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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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 greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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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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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire.
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