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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
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I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the…
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Their elegant shape, showy colors, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no…
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It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical…
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The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
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I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…
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The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one…
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The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill…
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except…
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They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard…
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Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great…
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…
— Henry Walter Bates
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The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever…
— James Madison
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What will it cost you, oh Mary, to hear our prayer? What will it cost you to save us? Has not Jesus…
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It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing…
— Kate Chopin
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My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps,…
— Liberty Hyde Bailey
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What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the…
— Herbert M. Shelton
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It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against…
— Thomas Paine
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Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor…
— Baltasar Gracian
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True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal…
— Henry Ford
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I laid the foundation and built thereon, the science of CHIROPRACTIC.
— Daniel D. Palmer
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