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On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer…
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The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the…
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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
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The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to…
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If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation,…
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My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order…
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Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late…
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The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check…
— Hannah More
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
— Charles Churchill
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Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits,…
— August Strindberg
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Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes…
— Ronald Reagan
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Disease preys on a weak and malnourished mind.
— Bernard Jensen
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Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically…
— William James
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