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• The world, and whatever that be which we call the heave
  by the vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity, to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any time to destruction....
• The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath.
  It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes....
• The bird of passage known to us as the cuckoo. -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) -- Natural History, Book xviii, Sect.
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• Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow money to do it.
  -- Artemus Ward...
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....
• There are many of us in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us.
  I have observed, for example, that we all get about the same amount of ice....
• Conscience doth make cowards of us all. -- Shakespeare
• 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.
  -- Pliny The Elde...