"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
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"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
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"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun."
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"As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things."
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"What goes up must come down."
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"You have to make the rules, not follow them"
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"To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation."
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"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent"
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"Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy."
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"Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
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"I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy."
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"It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions."
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"God created everything by number, weight and measure."
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"To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me"
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"No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated."
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"Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription."
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"If two angels were sent down from heaven -one to conduct an empire and the other to sweep the streets -they would feel no inclination to change employment because an angel would know that no matter what we are doing, it's an opportunity to bring joy, deepen our understanding and expand our life."
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"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
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"The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us."
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"If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work."
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