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philosophical growth divinity
David Hume Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
philosophical opinion certain
David Hume When any opinion leads us into absurdities, 'tis certainly false; but 'tis not certain an opinion is false, because 'tis of dangerous consequence.
philosophical men human-nature
David Hume Human Nature is the only science of man; and yet has been hitherto the most neglected.
philosophical men interest
David Hume Men often act knowingly against their interest.
philosophical numbers competition
David Hume And what is the greatest number? Number one.
philosophical world labor
David Hume Everything in the world is purchased by labor.
philosophical character results
David Hume Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.
philosophical power law
David Hume The law always limits every power it gives.
power overcoming cowardice
Charles Caleb Colton That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
power two age
Charles Caleb Colton There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
Charles Caleb Colton It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
Charles Caleb Colton We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Charles Caleb Colton Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
Charles Stanley One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
powerful evil spirit
Charles Spurgeon We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.
powerful church christ
Charles Spurgeon In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
powerful power negative
Alan Watts But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.
law knowing shy
Charles Dickens Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.
law justice water
Charles Caleb Colton In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.
law land tree
Charles Caleb Colton The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.
law firsts revolution
Charles Caleb Colton If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.
law genius talent
Charles Caleb Colton With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens The law is an ass, an idiot.
law equity appearing
Charles Dickens Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.
law lawyer mere
Charles Dickens But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.
law idiot ass
Charles Dickens If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.