No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.Samuel Johnson
Pity is not natural to man. Children and savages are always cruel. Pity is acquired and improved by the cultivation of reason. We may have uneasy sensations from seeing a creature in distress, without pity but we have not pity unless we wish to relieve him.
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Against the head which innocence secures, Insidious malice aims her dart in vain Turned backwards by the powerful breath of heaven.
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This doctrine (of ruling passions) is in itself pernicious as well as false its tendency is to produce the belief of a kind of moral predestination, or overruling principle which cannot be resisted he that admits it, is prepared to comply with ever.
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Knowledge always desires increase it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, But which will afterwards propagate itself.
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Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
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