"Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm,……" — Erasmus Darwin
"Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same."
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Erasmus Darwin
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25 Quotes by Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin has 25 quotes on this site.
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From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young…
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Owing to the imperfection of language the offspring is termed a new animal, but it is in truth a branch…
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The great CREATOR of all things has infinitely diversified the works of his hands, but has at the same time…
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Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of…
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To respect the cat is the beginning of the aesthetic sense.
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We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata…
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Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
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There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize;…
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A fool, Mr, Edgeworth, is one who has never made an experiment.
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Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!'…
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The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them.…
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In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why…
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More Changeful Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke…
— Charlotte Bronte
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To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master.
— Mark Twain
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How life is strange and changeful, and the crystal is in the steel at the point of fracture, and the…
— Robert Penn Warren
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Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain! Vain as the leaf upon the stream,…
— Walter Scott
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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.
— William Shakespeare
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The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position…
— Honore de Balzac
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Individually, men may present a more or less rational appearance, eating, sleeping, and scheming. But humanity a a whole is…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away
— Emily Bronte
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There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft…
— Sarah Doudney
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