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“The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.”

Ideas Moments Doubt Creatures Findings Fellows

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.”

Men World Understanding Interest Water Greater Sea Creatures Findings Rivers Clean Fishes Seeking Endless Boat Lakes Fishing Tranquility Inquisitive Flowing Water Wild Creatures Wild World

Book:Trout on a fly

Source: Trout on a fly

“As actors you have this trait to imitate very easily. I don't want to imitate anything or limit myself of finding this creature, this woman because I'm looking at magazines and I'm reading comics, and I'm asking people that are avid readers of The Guardians.”

People Want Reading Actors Reader Creatures Limits Findings Asking Magazines Traits Guardian Avid

Author:Zoe Saldana

“Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.”

Brain Mankind Creatures Findings Concern Blame Superiors Lacking Finding Someone Brain Power

Book:Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

Source: Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)

“Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true. You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers. The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”

“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.”

Should Humans Literature Nature Wonder Fire Human Nature Birth Creatures Findings Pity Heroic Electric Heroism Pearls Rubbish

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

Source: The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)

“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.”

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

“Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.”

Made Blood Broken Creatures Findings Down And Terror Useless Ran Shaking Wrists

Book:Wuthering Heights

Source: Wuthering Heights