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“From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.”

Men Trying Firsts May Pain Names Causes Powerful Spring Weakness Gains Love Life Trash Quackery

Book:The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

Source: The Poetical Works with His Letters and Journals and His Life by His Son. - London, John Murray 1834

“Man gains wider dominion by his intellect than by his right arm. The mustard-seed of thought is a pregnant treasury of vast results. Like the germ in the Egyptian tombs its vitality never perishes; and its fruit will spring up after it has been buried for long ages.”

Men Long Has Beens Age Results Arms Spring Gains Fruit Intellect Seeds Buried Pregnant Vitality Dominion Tombs Germs Treasury Egyptian Mustard Mustard Seed

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.”

Mind Pain Spring Gains Chinese No Pain Chinese Proverb No Pain No Gain

Book:Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities

Source: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities

“Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.”

World War Ends Fall Passion Grows Blood Spring Deserve Gains Guilty Consideration Shed Calamity Fury Indulgence

Book:A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

Source: A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc

“It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.”

Passion Grows Blood Spring Gains Shed Fury Indulgence

Book:The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...

Source: The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...

“Characters begin as voices, then gain presence by being viewed in others' eyes. Characters define one another in dramatic contexts. It is often very exciting, when characters meet - out of their encounters, unanticipated stories can spring.”

Character Stories Eye Voice Spring Gains Exciting Dramatic Encounters

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five to 10 years. He would have approved of the movements trying to gain some accountability in U.S. foreign policy, such as drones being (used) on innocent people. I think he would march against drones.”