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I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

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Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.

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Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

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Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

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Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

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Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

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An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

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Dreaming men are haunted men.

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Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

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And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

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So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

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Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.

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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.

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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

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We have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

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From my own being, and from the dependency I find in myself and my ideas, I do, by an act of reason, necessarily infer the existence of a God, and of all created things in the mind of God.

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