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This sunlight linked me through the ages to that past consciousness.

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Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

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It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

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The lover of nature has the highest art in his soul.

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The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

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Almost every labourer has his Sunday suit, very often really good clothes, sometimes glossy black, with the regulation 'chimney pot'. His unfortunate walk betrays him, dress how he will.

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No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how eagerly men have rushed to serve the despot is the bitterest, the saddest matter of history; it is the saddest sight in our own day.

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Ever since the world began, it has been the belief of mankind that desolate places are the special haunt of supernatural beings.

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If every plant and flower were found in all places, the charm of locality would not exist. Everything varies, and that gives the interest.

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There are people in this servile world who will endure any trampling, and at the first beck rush delightedly to proffer their assistance.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: November 6th, 1848

Died: August 14th, 1887

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