We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
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It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.
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What terrible questions we are learning to ask The former men believed in magic, by which temples, cities, and men were swallowed up, and all trace of them gone. We are coming on the secret of a magic which sweeps out of men's minds all vestige of theism and beliefs which they and their fathers held and were framed upon.
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Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness an open and noble temper.
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
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