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- (On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth is then rarefied…
- If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms…
- The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.
- It is a pleasure for to sit at ease Upon the land, and safely for to see How other folks are tossed on the seas…
- Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death
- Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other…
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- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
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