"In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine……" — Alice Morse Earle
"In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life."
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Alice Morse Earle
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30 Quotes by Alice Morse Earle
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed…
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The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the…
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Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day
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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a…
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We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not…
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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a…
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We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they…
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to…
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There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the…
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and…
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The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles…
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More Astrology Quotes
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I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical…
— Marvin Minsky
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All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only…
— Jonathan Swift
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That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example,…
— Carl Sagan
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The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any…
— Thomas Huxley
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Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
— Mason Cooley
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Millionaires don't have astrologers, billionaires do.
— J. P. Morgan
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The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe.
— Louis Pasteur
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Anyone can be a millionaire, but to become a billionaire you need an astrologer.
— J. P. Morgan
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If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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