Quote by John Calvin
Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ. – John Calvin

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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. – John Calvin

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God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation. – John Calvin

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Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men. – John Calvin

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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. – Will Durant

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I never doubted that I would work, and every time I went to an audition, I went into the room with the knowledge that I was going to get the part. Ninety-nine times out of 100, I didnt. – Busy Philipps

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The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. – John Locke

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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. – Roger Bacon

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The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. – Dale Carnegie

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I always tell myself: You can do better than this. The best slogan I can think of to leave with the U.S.A. would be: We can do and we’ve got to do better than this. – Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)

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