"A weed is a plant we've found no use for yet."
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"We are adapted to infinity. We are hard to please, and love nothing which ends: and in nature is no end; but every thing, at the end of one use, is lifted into a superior, and the ascent of these things climbs into daemonic and celestial natures."
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"Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means."
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"The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it."
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"What preys on my mind is simply this one question: what am I good for, could I not be of service or use in some way?"
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"If one were to say but few words, though ones with meaning, one would do better than to say many that were only empty sounds, and just as easy to utter as they were of little use."
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"The creative part of oneself finds its way out. In this case, I got interested particularly in the medium of Twitter and looked for ways to use it creatively."
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"I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that."
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"[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use."
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"Never mind the use--do it!"
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"Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united."
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"A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed."
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"Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone."
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"To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence."
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"...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his enlargement, than to do, with greater cunning, what he did before with less."
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"For example, the use of chemical weapons [in Syria]- some on the Democrat side have said well, this encourages the North Koreans to use chemical weapons against our troops."
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"Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity."
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"Use words that soak up life."
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"A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing."
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"You were safe on a troll. Anyone wanting to mug a troll would have to use a building on a stick."
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