"Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1861). “Essays and Reviews”, p.74

Edwin Percy Whipple

#Patents Quotes #Sin Quotes #Invention Quotes

“One of the principal reasons why so many fail to get what they want is because they do not definitely know what they want, or because they change their wants almost every day. Know what you want and continue to want it. You will get it if you combine desire with faith. The power of desire when combined with faith becomes invincible.”
“I don't ever really feel that wearing my wedding ring is what determines me being married or not.”
“It's your life; live it well.”
“But we never get back our youthâ€¦ The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.”
“It's the occasion that makes the revolution.”
“The big will get bigger; the small will get wiped out.”
“Wander a whole summer if you can. Â Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Â Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”
“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind, independent of the prevalent one among the crowds, and in opposition to it - a tone of mind which will gradually win influence over the collective one, and in the end determine its character. Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.”

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