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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.

Thomas Hobbes

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
Eloquence, with flattery, disposeth men to confide in them that have it; because the former is seeming wisdom, the latter seeming kindness.
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Kind Man Philosophy Wisdom
Where shall I turn, what shall I do?’ are the voices of people grieving. Idleness is torture. In all times and places, nature abhors a vacuum.
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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
The Power of a Man is his present means, to obtain some future apparent Good.
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Future Good Man Philosophy Power
Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
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Art Death Fear Letter Life Man Philosophy Short Society Violence
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
By consequence, or train of thoughts, I understand that succession of one thought to another which is called, to distinguish it from discourse in words, mental discourse
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Mental Philosophy Thought Understand Word
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap

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