Quote #55

Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.

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  1. Truth therefore and utility are here the very same thing:
  2. Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold o…
  3. There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and mea…
  4. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
  5. Another argument of hope may be drawn from this - that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it coul…
  6. Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
  7. No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to…
  8. Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. 'Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.'

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