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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
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. (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!) (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Unjust force can never give any just dominion (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
To bliss unknown my lofty soul aspires, my lot unequal to my vast desires (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Law is a bottomless pit (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Biography is one of the new terrors of death (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
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 (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
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 (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the exact balance that is maintained, between the numbers of men and women; for by this means is provided, that the species never may fail, nor perish, since every male may have its female, and of proportionable age. This equality of males and females is not the effect of chance but divine providence, working for a good end (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
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 (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
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 (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
The mathematics are friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of imagination, and purge the mind from error and prejudice (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest (John Arbuthnot Quotes)
O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way (John Arbuthnot Quotes)