The dose makes the poison.

Paracelsus

Dose Makes Poison

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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.

Paracelsus

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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.

Paracelsus

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This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus

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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Paracelsus

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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.

Paracelsus

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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?

Paracelsus

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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.

Paracelsus

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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

Animal Another Bargain Bones

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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?

Adam Smith

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With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

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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.

Adam Smith

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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.

Adam Smith

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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.

Adam Smith

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Adam Smith

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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.

Adam Smith

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone

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

Adam Smith

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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.

Adam Smith

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I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

Love Matter Memory More

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Adam Smith

Defense Opulence Superior

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

Visible Words Pages Blank

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

Sunrise Death Even Great

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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.

Adam Smith

Animals Another Barter Common

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You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Vladimir Nabokov

Style Prose Fancy Count

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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.

Adam Smith

Been Defense Given Innocence

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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Vladimir Nabokov

Ideas Book Essence Great

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The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

Rocks Cradle Light Sense

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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov

African Dreams Genius Snow

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Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life Delight Enjoy Order

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

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

Far Flourishing Greater Happy

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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

Passions Man Butterflies Known

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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.

Adam Smith

Altogether Ambition Desire Directing

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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vast Obscure Series Existence

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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.

Adam Smith

Corrects Customers Discipline Effectual

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A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Vladimir Nabokov

Poet Precision Scientist Writer

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

Involves Irrational Mysteries Perceived

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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.

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

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When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Martin Luther

When I Am Angry

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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ

Martin Luther

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The dose makes the poison.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

Paracelsus

This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.

Paracelsus

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

Paracelsus

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.

Paracelsus

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?

Paracelsus

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

Paracelsus

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Adam Smith

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

W. Clement Stone

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

Adam Smith

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.

Adam Smith

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Vladimir Nabokov

Adam Smith

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Adam Smith

You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

Vladimir Nabokov

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.

Adam Smith

Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Vladimir Nabokov

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

Vladimir Nabokov

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Vladimir Nabokov

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

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

Adam Smith

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov

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.