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John Herschel has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy have resulted from what we have elsewhere termed Residual Phenomena, of a qualitative or numerical…
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The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going…
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According to this view of the matter, there is nothing casual in the formation of Metamorphic Rocks. All strata, once buried deep…
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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that…
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All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and…
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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a…
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Speculations apparently the most unprofitable have almost invariably been those from which the greatest practical applications have emanated.
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It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon…
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The novel, in its best form, I regard as one of the most powerful engines of civilization ever invented.
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Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye,…
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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated…
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...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we…
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I was a wife and mother, blameless in moral life, with a deep sense of duty and a proud self-respect; it was…
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not…
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to…
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
— Barry Bonds
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The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of…
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
— Jo Brand
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I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch…
— Anne Bronte
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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
— Muhammad Ali
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There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem.…
— Kurt Cobain
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It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of…
— George Eliot
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To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
— Tim Minchin
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