The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
THOMAS HOBBESThe light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.
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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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Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
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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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It’s not the pace of life I mind. It’s the sudden stop at the end.
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The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
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liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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A great leap in the dark.
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whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
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it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Some men’s desires are without limits.
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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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Hell is truth seen too late.
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