"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."

Nature, Fact, Nothing, Will

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"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing."

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"Life is a flowing river. We came from earth and water. We will go back there after the magic of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Clear skies do not promise rain."

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"Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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"Spring is the only season that flutters in on gentle wings and builds nests in our hearts."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists..."

John Geddes, Canadian Author

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"When I am in nature, my heart dances with butterflies and sings along with flowers."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"A planet without birds is a planet without angels!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown."

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"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."

Time

"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

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"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."

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"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

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"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."

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"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."

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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

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"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."

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"It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy."

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