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Top 20 John Arbuthnot Quotes (2025 Update)

John Arbuthnot Quote: “Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.”

1. “Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.”

2. “Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.”

3. “Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.”

4. “The mathematics are the friends of religion, inasmuch as they charm the passions, restrain the impetuosity of the imagination, and purge the mind of error and prejudice.”

— John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot Quote: “Law is a bottomless pit.”

5. “Law is a bottomless pit.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”

6. “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “Biography is one of the new terrors of death.”

7. “Biography is one of the new terrors of death.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.”

8. “O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “Unjust force can never give any just dominion.”

9. “Unjust force can never give any just dominion.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten’d and cemented with a little seeth’d fat.”

10. “The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten’d and cemented with a little seeth’d fat.”

— John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot Quote: “Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, “Hoc est corpus,” were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as “Hocus-pocus.” – John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.”

11. “Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, “Hoc est corpus,” were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as “Hocus-pocus.” – John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.”

12. “John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.”

13. “Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.”

14. “He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.”

15. “The dumpling-eaters are a race sprung partly from the old Epicurean and partly from the Peripatetic Sect; they were first brought into Britain by Julius Caesar; and finding it a Land of Plenty, they wisely resolved never to go home again.”

— John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot Quote: “The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.”

16. “The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together.”

— John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot Quote: “To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.”

17. “To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.”

18. “He warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.”

19. “What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!”

20. “Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!”

— John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot Quote: “Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.”

21. “Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.”

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John Arbuthnot Quote: “All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.”

22. “All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.”

— John Arbuthnot

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