"Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events."
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"Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before."
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"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."
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"He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly."
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"No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments."
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"The scholar is early acquainted with every department of the impossible."
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"The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you."
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"Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not."
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