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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which…
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From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from…
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch or elongation…
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The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time stamped a…
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To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay,…
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Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that…
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions…
— Saint Augustine
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The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the…
— Henry Beston
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the…
— John Burroughs
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It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not…
— Austin Phelps
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Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.
— Bettina Boxall
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Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
— Paulo Coelho
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I've crossed these sands many times," said one of the camel drivers one night. "But the desert is so huge, and the…
— Paulo Coelho
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