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The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

Thomas Hobbes

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
Men are moved by appetites and aversions.
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Man Move Philosophy
Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.
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Desire Life Motion Philosophy
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
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
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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Deep Heart Philosophy Season
Leisure is the mother of Philosophy.
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Fun Leisure Mother One Liner Philosophy
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 Conscience is a thousand witnesses.
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Conscience Deep One Liner
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth.
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Fact Fortune Virtue
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
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
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Force Fraud Virtue War
And if this be madness in the multitude, it is the same in every particular man.
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Mad Man Philosophy
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
it is one thing to desire, another to be in capacity fit for what we desire.
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Desire Philosophy

The Conscience is a thousand witnesses.

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