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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the North would…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their burrows, as…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain movements about…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse,…
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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want…
— Mark Twain
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I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
— Callan McAuliffe
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be…
— John Drinkwater
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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
— F. R. Leavis
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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a…
— C.S. Lewis
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
— Marguerite Young
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Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could…
— Charles Darwin
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The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that…
— Cornell Woolrich
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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with…
— Susan Cain
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
— Samuel Johnson
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
— Marcel Proust
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