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“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.”

Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.

“Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty.”

Humans May Spirit Mere Seeking Significant March Occupation Quests Human Spirit Collecting Collectors Humanistic Assembling

Author:Arthur Davison Ficke

“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”

Humans Democratic Mere Aspiration Phases Human History Magna Carta

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth.”

Men Humans Earth Dies Force Responsibility Moral Teaching Victory Morality Mere Islam Urges Gross Discernment Endeavour Immorality Platonic Moral Responsibility

Book:Islam at the Crossroads

Source: Islam at the Crossroads

“To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.”

Humans Night Media Illusion Bigger Victim Mere Swear Day And Night Slander Badness

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.”

Humans Speak Devil Mere Latin Possessed Grammar Speaks Out Statutes

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg