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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. Mestrius Plutarchus		Thursday Apr 25, 2024
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About Bishop George Berkeley

	Bishop George Berkeley
	(1685-1753) Principles of Human Knowledge - Irish philosopher, prof. of divinity at Dublin U, lived in US, ret. Oxford.

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Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world have not any subsistence without a mind.

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