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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

Thomas Hobbes

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.
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Book Man Philosophy Read Sarcastic
Fear of power invisible, feigned by the mind, or imagined from tales publicly allowed, is religion; not allowed, superstition.
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Allow Fear Imagination Mind Philosophy Power Public
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
Some men’s desires are without limits.
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Desire Limit Man One Liner
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
liberty, to define it, is nothing other than the absence of impediments to motion
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Absence Freedom Liberty
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
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
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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Grief Myself Nature Philosophy Place Time Torture Voice
Give an inch, he’ll take an ell.
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Literature One Liner Philosophy
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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Blame Clean Man Religious Secret Shame Thought
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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Experience Man Philosophy Prudent Time
All acquired power consists in command over some of the powers of other man.
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Command Man Philosophy Power
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
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Destroy Life Peace Philosophy War
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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Book Late Man Read Wisdom
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell Late One Liner Truth

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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