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• Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
  -- Herbert Westren Turnbull...
• That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of the atom
  I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet should fall into a most ingenious treatise on Philosophy....
• A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful. -- Book of Common Prayer (1662) -- Psalm 147, v.
  16...
• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, Vol.
  vii, p. 50...
• It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
  -- Richard Bentley (1662-1742) -- Monk's Life of Bentley, Page 90...
• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 356...
• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 334...
• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 335...
• People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 274...