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84 Naturalist Quotes

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind.
Nature Soothing Mind Tormented
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There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.

Stages Scientific Discovery People
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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.
True Enjoyment Activity Mind
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The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

Government Best Makes Unnecessary
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Convinced Happiness Unhappiness Depends
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However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Great Evil Immorality Forget
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

Glance Important Revolutions Greatest
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How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

Person Masters Fate Important
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.

Citizen Indifferent Fellows Husband
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

War Seems Salutary Phenomena
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.

Insight Universal Nature Intellectual.delight
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It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.

Usually Important Man Meets
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Collaboration operates through a process in which the successful intellectual achievements of one person arouse the intellectual passions and enthusiasms of others.

Collaborate Operate Process Successful
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There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

Education Races Cultured Advance
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Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.

Only Wrought Character Life
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With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.
Animals Man Alertness Diminishes
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The philosophical study of nature endeavors, in the the vicissitudes of phenomena, to connect the present with the past.

Philosophical Nature Endeavors Vicissitudes
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Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind
Nature Soothing Tormented Mind
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The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.

Dangerous Worldview Never Viewed
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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people.

Cruelty Animals Significant Vices
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We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

Beauty Imagination Logic Mathematics
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We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All-Around Around Ask Capable
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Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Die Forever Going Live
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Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

Altogether Grasp Growing Hand
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As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Disappoint General GeneralRule Know
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Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.
Bright Look Only Spots
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Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

Every Expresses Formula God
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I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

Always Am Better Breathing
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I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

Am Begin Colors Different
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I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Always Am IAm Just
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I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

Dying Early Enough Fast
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Again Comet Computation Did
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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

About Comet Find Know
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I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Again AllDay Almost Am
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I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.

Cannot Comet Cooper Elements
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

About Alone Cave Courage
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Appreciating Born IWasBorn Incapable
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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Alone Closet Girl Give
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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Affections Even Good Sacrificing
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Bear Head Heart How
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Question everything.
Everything Question
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Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Aid AIDS Individuals Large
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Knowledge Popular Scientific Which
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Been Best Far Has-Been
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Educating Give Greatest Habit
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Character Haste Hurry More
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Broad Human HumanSoul Learning
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Beauty Cosmetic Happiness Like
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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