Bathsua Makin Quotes
... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
Bathsua Makin
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The thing about death is that it's honest.
Laura Linney
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Et sane arduum debet esse, quod adeo raro reperitur. Qui enim posset fieri, si salus in promptu esset et sine magno labore reperiri posset, ut ab omnibus fere negligeretur? Sed omnia praeclara tam difficilia, quam rara sunt.
Baruch Spinoza
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A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has a mind as narrow as the neck of a vinegar-cruet.
Samuel Johnson
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To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage weltschmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?
P. J. O'Rourke
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
Octavio Paz
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Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity, can treat each other with a fickleness, a parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be seen to be believed.
Camille Paglia
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But they lived those extraordinary lives that can never be lived again. And in the living of them, they gave me a history that is more profound, more beautiful, more powerful, more passionate, and ultimately more useful, than the best damn history book I ever read.
Utah Phillips
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
Stevie Wonder
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.
Alphonsus Liguori
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But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
C. S. Lewis
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To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
Blaise Pascal
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... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.
Bathsua Makin
