Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms,… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“ORGANIC LIFE beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in Ocean's pearly caves; First, forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“Each pregnant Oak ten thousand acorns forms Profusely scatter'd by autumnal storms; Ten thousand seeds each pregnant poppy sheds Profusely scatter'd from… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
[Retirement] is a dangerous experiment, and generally ends in either drunkenness or hypochrondriacism. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. [The first… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The Reproductions of the living Ens From sires to sons, unknown to sex, commence... Unknown to sex the pregnant oyster swells, And coral-insects build… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a certain similitude… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
“It is often hazardous to marry an heiress, as she is not unfrequently the last of a diseased family.” — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
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![“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun…” quote by Erasmus Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/385/erasmus-darwin-17186_atoms_so-erst-the-sage-pythagoras-with-scienti_3173964.jpg)
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![“Opium is the only drug to' be rely'd on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain'd credit which they do not deserve.” quote by Erasmus Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/762/erasmus-darwin-17186_credit_opium-is-the-only-drug-to-be-rely-d-on-a_368750.jpg)
