It seems, Euphranor..., that there is nothing so singularly absurd as we are apt to think, in the belief of mysteries; and that a ...man need not renounce his reason to maintain his religion. But if this were true, how comes it to pass, that, in proportion as men abound in knowledge, they dwindle in faith?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the nature of our civilized minds is so detached from the senses, even in the vulgar, by abstractions corresponding to all the... abstract terms our languages abound in, and so refined by the art of writing, and as it were spiritualized by the use of numbers, because even the vulgar know how to count and reckon, that it is naturally beyond our power to form the vast image of this mistress called "Sympathetic Nature."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Riches are valuable at all times, and to all men; because they always purchase pleasures, such as men are accustomed to, and desir...e: Nor can any thing restrain or regulate the love of money, but a sense of honour and virtue; which, if it be not nearly equal at all times, will naturally abound most in ages of knowledge and refinement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... we have every reason to rejoice when there are so many gains and when favorable conditions abound on every hand. The end is no...t yet in sight, but it can not be far away. The road before us is shorter than the road behind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give money me, take friendship whoso list, For friends are gone come once adversity.... When money yet remaineth safe in chest, That quickly can thee bring from misery. Fair face show friends when riches do abound;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound, And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.... Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight, Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If morality had naturally no influence on human passions and actions, it were in vain to take such pains to inculcate it; and noth...ing would be more fruitless than that multitude of rules and precepts with which all moralists abound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in peop...le, as well as in commodities and riches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A new kind of woman with deep-rooted values is changing the way we live. Market researchers call it "neo-traditionalism." To us it...'s a woman who has found her identity in herself, her home, her family.... She is part of an extraordinary social movement that is profoundly changing the way Americans look at living--and the way products are marketed. The home is again the center of American life, oatmeal is back on the breakfast table, families are vacationing together, watching movies at home, playing Monopoly again. Even the perfume ads are suddenly glorifying commitment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »