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Every failure is a step to success.
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case.
We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.
Of an old tale which every schoolboy knows.
Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.
Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.
I do not intend to prejudge the past.
I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.
It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.
Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, then go straight forward.
Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.
Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.
Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
Faith is a passionate intuition.
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