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For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.

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What Tully said of war may be applied to disputing: "It should be always so managed as to remember that the only true end of it is peace." But generally true disputants are like true sportsmen,--their whole delight is in the pursuit; and the disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

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Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.

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There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?

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Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes.

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Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

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The laughers are a majority.

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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.

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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.

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And write about it, Goddess, and about it!

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Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

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Therefore they who say our thoughts are not our own because they resemble the Ancients, may as well say our faces are not our own, because they are like our Fathers: And indeed it is very unreasonable, that people should expect us to be Scholars, and yet be angry to find us so.

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Some men's wit is like a dark lantern, which serves their own turn and guides them their own way, but is never known (according to the Scripture phrase) either to shine forth before men, or to glorify their Father in heaven.

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Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

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All nature is but art unknown to thee.

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Education forms the common mind.

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The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

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Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.

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