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“Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.”

School Religion Consciousness Subjects Infinite Various Fixed Personal Relationships Syllabus

Book:The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

Source: The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany

“[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind.”

“When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.”

Law Death Forget Enemy Forever Subjects Fixed Mortality Doom Gliding

Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.”

Firsts Government Wanted Courses Found Subjects Effects Students Fixed Exception Senate

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.”

Heart Littles Eye Lines White Five Conditions Subjects Hair Months Twenties Punishment Witness Suspense Fixed Sufficient Brown Grey Convicts Bleach Brown Hair

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“When soured by disappointment we must endeavor to pursue some fixed and pleasing course of study, that there may be no blank leaf in our book of life. Painful and disagreeable ideas vanish from the mind that can fix its attention upon any subject.”

Mind May Book Ideas Courses Attention Study Subjects Painful Disappointment Pursue Fixed Melancholy Endeavor Blank Leafs Disagreeable Book Of Life Pain In Life

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun.”

Ifs Light Beautiful Stars Powerful Sun Wise Subjects Planets Intelligent Fixed Centre Dominion Comets Wise Counsel

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Sir Isaac Newton (Illustrated)

“I never listen to debates. They are dreadful things indeed. The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides. On all known subjects, ranging from aviation to xylophone-playing, I have fixed and invariable ideas. They have not changed since I was four or five.”

Men Want Ideas Sides Known Five Four Subjects Changed Truth Is Fairs Debate Fixed Aviation Both Sides

Author:H. L. Mencken

“A photographer looks at everything, which is why he must look from beginning to end. Face the subject head-on, stay fixed, turn the entire body into an eye and face the world.”

World Looks Ends Body Eye Faces Turns Subjects Photographer Fixed

Author:Shomei Tomatsu