Top 24 John Arbuthnot Quotes
#1. All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
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#2. Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.
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#3. The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.
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#4. It is impossible for a Die, with such determin'd force and direction, not to fall on such determin'd side, only I don't know the force and direction which makes it fall on such determin'd side, and therefore I call it Chance, which is nothing but the want of art ...
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#5. Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.
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#6. Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.
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#7. The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.
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#8. To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
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#9. He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.
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#10. The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.
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#11. Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
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#12. All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
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#13. He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.
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#14. Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)
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#15. John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
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#16. Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!
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#18. What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.
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#19. O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.
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#20. Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
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#21. The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.
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#24. Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.
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