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Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen,… — Lettie Cowman
Modern prophets say that our economics have failed us. No! It is not our economics which have failed; it is man who has failed-man who… — Fulton J. Sheen
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions,… — Victor Hugo
It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native… — Henry David Thoreau
In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are… — Aristotle
Seeing every height crowned with its crater, and the boundaries of most of the lava-streams still distinct, we are led to believe that within a… — Charles Darwin
Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present. — Penelope Lively
The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the… — Michelangelo Antonioni
Fossils are of four kinds, viz. saline, earthy, inflammable and metallic; hence arise four classes. — Torbern Bergman
When the moon is ninety degrees away from the sun it sees but half the earth illuminated (the western half). For the other (the eastern… — Galileo Galilei
We cannot think of ourselves save as to some extent social being. Hence, we cannot separate the idea of ourselves and our own good from… — John Dewey
When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters… — Hiroshi Sugimoto
A designer…has the true responsibility to give his audiences not what they think they want, for this is almost invariably the usual, the accustomed, the… — Lester Beall
I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man,… — Henry David Thoreau
If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence… — Harry Blamires
And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy… — Thomas Browne
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe. — James Lileks
And so it is true in this sense that there is essentially but one religion, the religion of the living God. For to live in… — Ralph Waldo Trine
Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war Britain… — Simon Jenkins
Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more… — Israel Zangwill
This shall hence become my music. — Charles XII of Sweden
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from… — Alexander Pope
It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up… — Henry David Thoreau
In order to be a leader a man must have followers. And to have followers, a man must have their confidence. Hence, the supreme quality… — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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