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4485 Philosopher Quotes

The dreams which reveal the supernatural are promises and messages that God sends us directly: they are nothing but His angels, His ministering spirits, who usually appear to us when we are in a great predicament.

Angels Appear Directly Dreams
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
Give Heed Lives Must
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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Alchemy Chemist He Medicine
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Alchemy Founder Process Smith
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Arts Create Energy Flow
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

Asleep Away Because Fooling
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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

Alleviate Could Cure Discovered
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Eyes Herbs Only Perceive
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All money is a matter of belief.
Belief Matter Money
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Aspirations Poor Poverty Real
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Baker Benevolence Butcher Dinner
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I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

Affected Done Good Known
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Animal Another Bargain Bones
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Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.
Finger Happiness Lays Never
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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Added Clear ClearConscience Conscience
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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Chief Consists Enjoyment Greater
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Affections Benevolent Constitute Exercise
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

Any Become Country Demand
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

AllThings First Gold Labour
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Antidote Enthusiasm Great Poison
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Absorb After Changes Detail
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Baffled Cases Facts Imagination
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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

Ambiguity City Had Pass
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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

Adventure Approach Certain Certainty
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Defense is superior to opulence.
Defense Opulence Superior
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.

Animals Another Barter Common
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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

Been Defense Given Innocence
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Generosity Humanity Man Virtue
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No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

Common Complaint Money More
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Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

AllThings First Labor Money
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Because Conscience Excess Feared
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

Far Flourishing Greater Happy
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Corrects Customers Discipline Effectual
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Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Any Cheerfulness Christian Course
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Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

About Administration Barbarism Being
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It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

Active Banking Capital Country
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

Attended Consumer Consumption End
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Procrastination is the thief of time.

Procrastination Thief Time
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Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Weakness Shows Satire Today
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By all means use some time to be alone.

Alone Means Some Time
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

Blush Brute Man Quite
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How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Take Brighten Flight How
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The man that makes a character, makes foes.

Character Foes Makes Man
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A friend is worth all hazards we can run.
Friend Hazards Run Worth
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Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

Friendship Life Neither New
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Indebted Lie Never Truth
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The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

House Laughter Makes Woe
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A man of pleasure is a man of pains.

Man Pains Pleasure
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Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Fool Forty Indeed Speed
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