In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a
stone, and were asked how the
stone came to be there: I might possibly answer, that for any thing I know to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why should not this answer serve for the watch, as well as for the
stone? why is it not as admissable in the second case as in the first? For this reason, and for no other, viz., that when we come to inspect the watch, we perceive (what we could not discover in the
stone) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose . . . This mechanism being observed . . . the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place of other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
View quotes by William PaleyIf they want me down to 12
stone, I would have to cut off a leg
View quotes by Ian BlackwellLet him who is without sin cast the first
stone.
View quotes by Jesus ChristBetween the victim and the
stone knife
View quotes by Gerard Didier ErasmusEvery charitable act is a stepping
stone toward heaven.
View quotes by Henry Ward Beecher Histories in blazonry and poems in
stone.
View quotes by OuidaLet him that is without
stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
View quotes by Robert FrostI prefer to think of the future as something that is not written in
stoneView quotes by Jean Luc PicardA rolling
stone gathers no moss - Maxims
View quotes by Publilius SyrusThe heathen in his blindness
Bows down to wood and
stoneView quotes by Reginald HeberI used to smoke fifteen spliffs a day - and my weight went up to 16.5
stone!
View quotes by Gary BarlowThe heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's
Stone.
View quotes by Paul CelanStone lotus cups, with petals dipped in sand
View quotes by Jean IngelowWe are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to
stoneView quotes by MontaigneIf you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of
stone or brass, it will beat them down.
View quotes by John CottonA scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of
stone.
View quotes by Charles DarwinCivilisation will not attain to its perfection until the last
stone from the last church falls on the last priest
View quotes by Emile ZolaThe drop of rain maketh a hole in the
stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.
View quotes by Hugh LatimerI can assure West Ham fans that no
stone will be unearthed in our preparation for next week.
View quotes by Alan PardewLike Sisyphus, our work is never done;
Continually rolls back the restless
stone. (The Thresher's Labour)
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