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“All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.”

Source: Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make - leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents or piled stone - we all dwell in a house of one room - the world with the firmament for its roof - and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!”

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Book:The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin

Source: The Philosophy of Shakspere, Extracted from His Plays, and Interspersed with Remarks, by M. H. Rankin

“It was a cold hard easterly morning when he latched the garden gate and turned away. The light snowfall which had feathered his schoolroom windows on the Thursday, still lingered in the air, and was falling white, while the wind blew black.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.”

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Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.”

“Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.”

“We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.”

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Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“A discovery is like falling in love and reaching the top of a mountain after a hard climb all in one, an ecstasy not induced by drugs but by the revelation of a face of nature that no one has seen before and that often turns out to be more subtle and wonderful than anyone had imagined.”

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Author:Max Perutz