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Hugh Miller has 21 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The development doctrines are doing much harm on both sides of the Atlantic, especially among intelligent mechanics, and a class of young…
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when…
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The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his…
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The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do…
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Because science flourishes, must poesy decline? The complaint serves but to betray the weakness of the class who urge it. True, in…
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No true geologist holds by the development hypothesis;-it has been resigned to sciolists and smatterers;-and there is but one other alternative. They…
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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale…
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Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an…
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Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and…
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The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to…
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Basically, people are never happy enough because they want more money
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Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are…
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When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But…
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Because ain’t that white people for you, wondering if they are happy enough.
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Miss Celia stares down into the pot like she's looking for her future. "Are you happy, Minny?" "Why you ask me funny…
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Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will…
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They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I…
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Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well,…
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