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> [Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in an age like the present,-considerably more scientific than poetical,-science substitutes for the smaller poetry of fiction, the great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/because-science-flourishes-must-poesy-decline-the-complaint-serves/)

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## More by Hugh Miller

> [They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/they-were-i-doubt-not-happy-enough-in-their-dark-stalls-because-they/)

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> [The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do not extend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/the-six-thousand-years-of-human-history-form-but-a-portion-of-the/)

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> [It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and disappears, life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/it-is-an-excellent-circumstance-that-hospitality-grows-best-where-it/)

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> [But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/but-should-we-continue-to-linger-amid-a-scene-so-featureless-and-wild/)

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> [Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/save-for-thee-and-thy-lessons-man-in-society-would-everywhere-sink/)

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> [The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to permit the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/the-primary-rocks-i-regard-as-the-deposits-of-a-period-in-which-the/)

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> [It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/it-is-an-excellent-circumstance-that-hospitality-grows-best-where-it-2/)

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> [Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/life-itself-is-a-school-and-nature-always-a-fresh-study/)

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> [Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/donald-had-reached-its-further-edge-and-could-hear-the-rush-of-the/)

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> [The geologist, in those tables of stone which form his records, finds no examples of dynasties once passed away again returning. There has no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/the-geologist-in-those-tables-of-stone-which-form-his-records-finds/)

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> [But, in truth, the existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The footprint on the sand — to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/but-in-truth-the-existing-premises-wholly-altered-by-geologic-science/)

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> [Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/prayer-is-so-mighty-an-instrument-that-no-one-ever-thoroughly/)

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> [But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/but-the-advice-was-not-taken-johnstone-did-emigrate-to-canada-and-did/)

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> [The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/the-footprint-of-the-savage-traced-in-the-sand-is-sufficient-to/)

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> [The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young men engaged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-miller/the-development-doctrines-are-doing-much-harm-on-both-sides-of-the/)

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