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"I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind."

"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."

"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative."

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."

"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
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