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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

Nor can a man any more live, whose Desires are at an end, than he, whose Senses and Imaginations are at a stand.
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Desire End Imagination Live Man Philosophy
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.
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Justice Man Nature Philosophy
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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End Life Mind Philosophy Stop Sudden
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
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
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time,wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
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Act Battle Fight Philosophy War
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
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Design Man 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
Life is nasty, brutish, and short.
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Life Nasty One Liner Short
That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.
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Book Man Read
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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Darkness Great Myself Travel

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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