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"How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!"
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"In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair."
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
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"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."
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"Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment."
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"Niagara Falls is a magnificent fall of dancing, singing, glowing, and flowing liquid love that exists to reconnect broken hearts."
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"Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work."
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"When I am lost in the wonder of nature, my life is vivacious."
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"We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him."
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"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul."
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"The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?"
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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person."
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"When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge."
Knowledge
"To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived."
Art
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Truth
"As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after."
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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
Imagination
"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
Time
"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."
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"Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature."
Nature
"The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside."
Writing
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