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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 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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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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That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale…
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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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Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.
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It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed. In the thick of men it dwindles and…
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The primary rocks, ... I regard as the deposits of a period in which the earth's crust had sufficiently cooled down to…
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot,…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It…
— William Hazlitt
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence…
— Aristotle
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Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.
— Jean-Francois de La Harpe
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Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience.…
— John Calvin
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In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
— Socrates
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He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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