Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet quotes
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“Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.”
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“Humility leads to the highest distinction, because it leads to self-improvement.”
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“It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius of discovery in science.-It was that led Newton to the invention of fluxions, and the discovery of gravitation, and Harvey to find out the circulation of the blood, and Davy to those views which laid the foundation of modern chemistry.”
-- Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
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“I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.”
Source : A.S. King (2010). “Please Ignore Vera Dietz”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.
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