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"Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done-peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color."
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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
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"Custom is second nature."
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"To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice."
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"It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet."
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"Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be."
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"There are great roads, beautiful bridges, lovely parks, gorgeous gardens and wonderful buildings in a big city. But there is something missing, something very important: The spirit of nature!"
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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"
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"Tess was awake before dawn - at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute, save for one prophetic bird who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence as if equally convinced that he is mistaken."
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"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
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"There can be no truce between science and religion."
Religion
"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles."
Nature
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
Suspicion
"The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms."
Religion
"The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern."
Business
"Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins."
Life
"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."
Health
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
Fear
"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."
Thought
"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."
God
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