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Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

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
Desire, to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man
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Curious Desire Live Man
The understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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Flame Passion Philosophy Understand
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
whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin.
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Conscience Man Religious Sin
The 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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Human Light Philosophy Reason Word
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy
Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge One Liner Power
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
The Value, or Worth of a man, is as of all other things, his Price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his Power.
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Man Power Price Value Worth
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
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.
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Argument Consent One Liner Philosophy Silence
God put me on this Earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I’m so far behind that I’ll never die
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Death Earth God Philosophy Thing

Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.

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