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What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

Thomas Hobbes

Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
Look not at the greatness of the evil past, but the greatness of the good to follow.
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Evil Follow Good Great Past
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.
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Believe Hard Man Nature Wise
The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.
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Law Nature Peace Philosophy Seek
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Death Philosophy Victory War World
In the very shadows of doubt a thread of reason (so to speak) begins, by whose guidance we shall escape to the clearest light.
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Clear Doubt Escape Guidance Light Philosophy Shadow
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal.
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Enemy Man Philosophy Secure Strength Time War
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Every part of the universe is ‘body’ and that which is not ‘body’ is no part of the universe, and because the universe is all, that which is no part of it is nothing, and consequently nowhere.
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Body Deep Philosophy Universe
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
Philosophy excludes the doctrine of angels, and all such things as are thought to be neither bodies nor properties of bodies.
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Angel Body Philosophy Thing
I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdity of my waking thoughts.
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Dream Myself Philosophy Thought
A great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Leap
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
Power simply is no more, but the excess of the power of one above that of another.
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Deep Philosophy Power Simple

What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?

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