curiosity vain
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- A desire for trial and knowing, often of unpleasant or useless things, not for pleasure or good, but purely for the sake of knowing.
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- for trial's sake, out of the lust of making trial and knowing
- objects
- contrary objects, mangled carcases, strange sights
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- leads_to_search_forHidden Powers of Nature
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- This disease of curiosity drives men to investigate the hidden aspects of nature, even when such knowledge offers no profit.
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- Hence men go on to search out the hidden powers of nature (which is besides our end), which to know profits not, and wherein men desire nothing but to know
- is_tempted_byPetty Distractions
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- Daily life presents numerous insignificant observations or activities that can tempt and divert one's attention through curiosity.
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- in how many most petty and contemptible things is our curiosity daily tempted, and how often we give way, who can recount
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- 2026-03-02T21:55:49.420Z
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