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Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.
Pliny the Elder
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Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.
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There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.
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It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.
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...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm of Nature the sea is in many ways the most harmful to the stomach, with its great variety of dishes and tasty fish.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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The happier the moment the shorter.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
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The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
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Home is where the heart is.
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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion.
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