"Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She……" — Henry David Thoreau

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• When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it… — John Owen
• The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but… — Paul Carus
• The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly… — Charles Darwin
• We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from… — James Madison
• The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the… — David McCullough
• To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times… — Joseph Glanvill
• The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible… — Pope Pius IV
• Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not… — Stanley Crouch
• To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different… — Charles Darwin
• When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We… — Jean Cocteau
• Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto. — Marquis de Sade
• The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to… — Douglas Coupland

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