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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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Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,…
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My brothers, seek counsel of one another, for therein lies the way out of error and futile repentance. The wisdom of the…
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Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery
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Were I to pray for a taste which should stand me in good stead under every variety of circumstances and be a…
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They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from…
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Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
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Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
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So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important— self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the…
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Brenna’s eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead. “Why do I keep telling you things I…
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Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people…
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