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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 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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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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Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below,…
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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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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
— Willa Cather
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Acceptance doesn't mean that you've resigned yourself to live the rest of your life with a particular person, or in a particular…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
— Ignazio Silone
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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…
— Hugh Miller
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[I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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