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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
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What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
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What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.
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What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be ''man''!
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
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What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
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What more fiendish proof of cosmic irresponsibility than a Nature which, having invented sex as a way to mix genes, then permits to arise, amid all its perfumed and hypnotic inducements to mate, a tireless tribe of spirochetes and viruses that torture and kill us for following orders?
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What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
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What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
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What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the World.
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What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.
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What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and over-satiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer.
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What was God doing before the divine creation?
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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What we're really after is trying to understand what's in the mind of God.
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