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As there is not in human observation proper means for measuring the waste of land upon the globe, it is hence inferred,…
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Error, never can be consistent, nor can truth fail of having support from the accurate examination of every circumstance.
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Time, which measures everything in our idea, and is often deficient to our schemes, is to nature endless and as nothing; it…
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A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to…
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We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a…
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When we trace the part of which this terrestrial system is composed, and when we view the general connection of those several…
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In matters of science, curiosity gratified begets not indolence, but new desires.
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Man is made for science; he reasons from effects to causes, and from causes to effects; but he does not always reason…
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In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the…
— E. M. Forster
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
— Honore de Balzac
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At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four…
— Therese of Lisieux
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True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building,…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king…
— Henry David Thoreau
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have…
— Thomas Love Peacock
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To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which…
— James Hutton
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Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it.
— Ibn Majah
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