We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
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If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation.
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
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His thoughts did not seem to come with labour and effort but as if borne on gusts of genius, and as if the wings of his imagination lifted him off from his feet. . . . His mind was clothed with wings and raised on them, he lifted philosophy to heaven.
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