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"For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves."
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"I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."
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"It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
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"A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives."
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"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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"Sometimes Alton Darwin would talk to me about the planet he was on before he was transported in a steel box to Athena. 'Drugs were food,' he said. 'I was in the food business. Just because people on one planet eat a certain kind of food they're hungry for, that makes them feel better after they eat it, that doesn't mean people on other planets shouldn't eat something else. On some planets I'm sure there are people who eat stones, and then feel wonderful for a little while afterwords. Then it's time to eat stones again."
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"The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by."
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"If the African stars do not rise, are not known, remain obscure, their stories are not told " who and where is the African story teller? Your challenge if you are in the media is to continually ask if you are doing enough, using the appropriate strategies and at the right platforms. Let's create and promote international and global stars with the talent and skills in our people, no one will do it for us."
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"Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing."
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"Witchcraft had once been widely used before cursed by the society. I see today the society presumes technology will have a different treatment."
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"Even the pious Scots, locked throughout history in a long-drawn-out battle with their arch-enemies the Scots, managed a few burnings to while away the long winter evenings."
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"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."
Nature
"Nature is a volume of which God is the author."
Nature
"Go to the poets, they will speak to thee. More perfectly of purer creatures."
Poetry
"She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament."
Literature
"Not without hope we suffer and we mourn."
Hope
"Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind;In the primal sympathyWhich having been must ever be..."
Grief
"But thou art with us, with us in the past,The present, with us in the times to come.There is no grief, no sorrow, no despair,No languor, no dejection, no dismay,No absence scarcely can there be, for thoseWho love as we do. Speed thee well!"
Endurance
"One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can."
Nature
"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."
Nature
"Duty were our games."
Duty
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