Quote #35

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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  1. Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts …
  2. He bought a book of Iudicial Astrology out of a curiosity to see what there was in that science & read in it till he came to a figure of th…
  3. The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for char…
  4. His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
  5. Idolatry is a more dangerous crime because it is apt by the authority of Kings & under very specious pretenses to insinuate it self into ma…
  6. Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians, the last great …
  7. Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their…
  8. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said 'Let Newton be' and all was light.

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