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“Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.”
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“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
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“Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.”
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