1748 · Skopia

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Remember that Time is Money.

Benjamin Franklin

The American Instructor: or Young Man's Best Companion · 1748

★ 8.5

Any port in a storm.

1748

★ 4.5

Philosophical literature

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

★ 3.9

Philosophical literature

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one. Mere reason is insufficient to convince us of its veracity: And whoever is moved by Faith to assent to it, is conscious of a continued miracle in his own person, which subverts all the principles of his understanding, and gives him a determination to believe what is most contrary to custom and experience.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning, concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

★ 3.7

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it for ever.

Lord Chesterfield

1748

★ 3.5

Treatise · Political literature

Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permits.

The Spirit of the Laws · 1748

★ 2.9

Philosophical literature

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

★ 2.2

Philosophical literature

The great advantage of the mathematical sciences above the moral consists in this, that the ideas of the former, being sensible, are always clear and determinate.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding · 1748

★ 2.0

What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?

1748

★ 1.9

In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Lord Chesterfield

1748

★ 1.9