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Source: H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…

“Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.”

Done Thousand Ten Excellence

Book:Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)

“Then his heart, now broken into a thousand pieces, slowly began to turn to ice.”

Heart Turns Pieces Broken Thousand Ice Heartbroken

Author:Michelle Rowen

“In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.”

Years Wells Ideas Enough Time Results Pay Five Greater Feet Source Involved Thousand Resources Years Ago Investment Deeper Surface Oil Operations More Time Texas Natural Resources

Author:Alfred Armand Montapert

“I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence”

Has Beens Wisdom Existence Thousand Islamic Islamic Wisdom

Author:Rumi

“You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.”

“And I leave the children the long, long days to be merry in in a thousand ways, and the Night, and the trail of the Milky Way to wonder at.”

Way Children Long Night Wonder Childhood Thousand Trails Merry Milky Way Long Day

Author:Williston Fish

“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live”

May Country Dies Regret Ought Citizens Thousand Hundred Virtuous

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“Lord, if Thou knowest that I shall find, on leaving the house, even through obedience, an occasion of offending Thee, I conjure Thee to take away my life here, where Thou are really present, for Thou solely art my life, and I prefer a thousand deaths to causing Thee the slightest displeasure.”

Ifs Art House Lord Thousand Leaving Saint Thee Occasions Obedience Offending Displeasure

Author:Alphonsus Rodriguez

“A father is a thousand schoolmasters.”

Life Father Thousand

Book:Between you and me

Source: Between you and me

“It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who was also known as Khufu, lived between 2589 and 2566 BC, or one thousand years before the Hyksos (Levites) were ever heard of.”

Years Made Age Known Heard Thousand Thousand Years Pyramids Pharaohs Khufu

Author:Michael Tsarion

“Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.”

Believe Reason Animal Half Theory Thousand Ten Creatures Doctors Jungle Ants Blueprints Giraffe

Book:The collected poems of John Ciardi

Source: The collected poems of John Ciardi

“It's not going to be that hard to be in Heaven, or the Heavenly City or the Millennium, but you're going to have something to do and something to keep you busy, and you'd be unhappy if you didn't. Wouldn't it be ridiculous after being so busy here if you wound up in Heaven with nothing to do but sit on a cloud playing a harp for a thousand years?-Much less all eternity! I think you'd really get bored.”

Ifs Thinking Years Hard Heaven Cities Thousand Eternity Busy Clouds Wounds Ridiculous Unhappy Bored Heavenly Thousand Years Millennium Harps

Author:David Berg

“A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.”

Men Fear Thousand Beast

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)

“From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.”

Years Light Able Science Produce Genius Thousand Labour Thousand Years Sublime Newton

Author:Justus von Liebig

“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.

“I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.”

“The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them, only a few carry even the simplest pocket microscope. Yet a small microscope will reveal wonders a thousand times more thrilling than anything which Alice saw behind the looking-glass.”

Mind Humans Persons Science Names Behinds Wonder Saws Fields Thousand Horse Glasses Ships Pockets Human Mind Simplest Thrilling Microscopes Steeples

Author:David Fairchild

“For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.”

Years Action Hours Thousand Structure Lifetime Karma Reactions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.”

Mind States Next Gone Thousand Ten Lifetime State Of Mind Rebirth Culmination Next Lifetime

Author:Frederick Lenz

“At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.”

Years Stills Country Song Voice Powerful Issues Industry Calling Thousand Environmental Elders Statesmen Nelson Environmental Issues

Author:Willie Nelson

“Only one fellow in ten thousand understands the currency question, and we meet him every day.”

Money Business Thousand Ten Fellows Currency Inflation

Author:Kin Hubbard

“No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.”

Men Mind Humans Thousand Speech Strikes Eloquence Human Power

Author:James A. Garfield

“Though your threshing floor grind a hundred thousand bushels of corn, not for that reason will your stomach hold more than mine.”

Reason Mines Thousand Eating Hundred Stomach Corn Grind

Author:Horace

“Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door”

Heart Book Three Morning Doors College Thousand Appreciate Rivers Copies Classroom Thrill Good Book April Georgia Dean

Book:Hawaii: A Novel

Source: Hawaii: A Novel

“Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.”

Doe Water Thousand Ten Benefits

Author:Laozi

“A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.”

Men Firsts Whole Facts America Lying History Creation Thousand Forests Britain Rome Egypt Greece Encyclopedia Acorns Greece And Rome

Book:Twelve Essays

Source: Twelve Essays

“A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And at a distance die.”

Dies Sound Thousand Degrees Distance Circles Gentle Breeze Airy Languish Trill

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“I have but nine-pence in ready money, but I can draw for a thousand pounds.”

I Can Ready Thousand Speech Draws Nine Pounds

Author:Joseph Addison

“The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.”

Wells Self Use Creative Thousand Mercy Victim Accidents Presentation Actuality Creative Writers

Author:John Updike

“A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.”

Ifs Wells May Persons Self Literature Thousand Six Accounts Seven Biographies

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Treat a thousand dispositions in a thousand ways.”

Way Thousand Treats Variety Disposition

Author:Ovid

“There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.”

Way Humans Hours Wealth Fool Thousand Waste Misery Boards Sickness Disgusting Superfluous One Hour Flatterer

Book:John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

Source: John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice

“Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.”

Law Universe Wealth Thousand Almighty Midas

Book:Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

“But in vain she did conjure him, To depart her presence so, Having a thousand tongues t' allure him And but one to bid him go. When lips invite, And eyes delight, And cheeks as fresh as rose in June, Persuade delay,-- What boots to say Forego me now, come to me soon.”

Eye Thousand Rose Lips Delight Tongue Vain Invites Boots Cheeks Delay June Parting Allure Wooing

Book:The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

Source: The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh

“Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.”

Art Eye Thousand Critics Print Cheat Gallery Printing Manuscripts

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!”

Country States Sports Forever Drink Thousand Ten Gold Mad Fingers Ministers Midas

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill.”

Art Turns Focus Thousand Streams Intensity Meadows Mills One Deep

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.”

Years Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Book:The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke

Source: The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and explanatory notes. The text ed. by C.C. Clarke

“The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.”

Giving Passion Differences Seeing Objects Thousand Ten Manners Fancy Contracts Beam Optics Invert

Book:An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes

Source: An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes

“The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.”

Men Social He Man Thousand Sympathy

Author:Euripides

“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”

Years Two Spirit Christianity Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds.”

World Firsts Steps Journey Thousand Library First Steps Portal

Author:Orson Scott Card

“The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.”

Thousand Beats Wings Midges