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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,… — James Hutton
- The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman. — Honore de Balzac
- The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom
- The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements… — John Playfair
- Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
- Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always… — Samuel Johnson
- When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced… — Hermann von Helmholtz
- You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found… — Friedrich Schiller