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"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."
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"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."
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"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."
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"During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk."
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"Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men."
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"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation."
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"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."
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"The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any hour of the night or morning and walked two miles to the observatory to make some observation included in the programme."
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"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
Men
"So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution."
Society
"When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck."
Man
"The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us, and any development that might have taken place in that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war."
Science
"Quite likely the twentieth century is destined to see the natural forces which will enable us to fly from continent to continent with a speed far exceeding that of a bird."
Will
"In 1860 a total eclipse of the sun was visible in British America."
America
"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."
England
"As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity."
Habit
"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars."
History
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