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So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length a

So, influenced by these advisors and this hope, I have at length allowed my friends to publish the work, as they had long besought me to do. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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So far as hypotheses are concerned, let no one expect anything certain from astronomy, which cannot furnish it, lest he accept as the truth ideas conceived for another purpose, and depart from this study a greater fool than when he entered it. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Truth
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Although all the good arts serve to draw mans mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Art
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Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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Fear
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Other Quotes from
Hope
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – Abraham Lincoln

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Hope

I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness. – Dave Eggers

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Hope

I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life. – Tom Felton

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Hope

Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting! – Andy Cohen

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Hope

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Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever. – Mark Twain

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Every mile is two in winter. – George Herbert

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as mens judgments of one another. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Men

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny a sun because it is not always day. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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