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Jonathan Swift

"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."

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Amber Hurdle

"Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon, like a black sun behind cloud cover. Like smoke from an unseen fire, a line of fire just below the horizon, brushfire or a burning city. Maybe night falls because it's heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. Wool blanket."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

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"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep."

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

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"Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song. She has messages to say, knowledge to relay, inspiration to convey... there is much for you to learn. Your journey has just begun."

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Amber Hurdle

"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

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"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."

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"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature."

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"Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through."
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"Better belly burst than good liquor be lost."
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"Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride."
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"That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy."
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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."
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"I know Sir John will go though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs."
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"When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against."
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"She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth."
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"I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."
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"Yet, Malice never was his Aim;He lash'd the Vice but spar'd the Name. No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant. His Satry points at no Defect, But what all Mortals may correct...Verses on the death of Dr Swift."
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