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Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs... may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimension, and…
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Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you.
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I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers,…
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Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.
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If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our…
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Upward, not Northward
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...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be…
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I have actually known a case where a Woman has exterminated her whole household, and half an hour afterwards, when her rage…
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
— Charlotte Bronte
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They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from…
— Aristotle
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The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul…
— A. C. Benson
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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process,…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward,…
— Robert Southey
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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