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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
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The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
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The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.
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The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.
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The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
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The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need, according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment and financial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking. Thought rules the world.
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The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.
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The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
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The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
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The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
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The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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