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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.

“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

“And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.”

Long Said Ends Whole Home Dream Wanted Lasts Found Strong Heaven Water Break Thousand Tables Bounds Rounds Whole Life Peaceful Fancy Flood Homeless Vessel Long Life Roaming

Book:The Poems of William Wordsworth

Source: The Poems of William Wordsworth

“Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.”

Soul Whole Winning Wind Thousand Glimpse Mirroring

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“As for women that do not think their own safety worth their thought, that impatient of their present state, resolve as they call it to take the first good Christian that comes; that runs into matrimony, as a horse rushes into battle; I can say nothing to them, but this, that they are a sort of ladies that are to be pray'd for among the rest of distemper'd people; and to me they look like people that venture their whole estates in a lottery where there is a hundred thousand blanks to one prize.”

Source: The works of Daniel De Foe [ed.] by W. Hazlitt

“Believe me, National Socialism would not be worth anything if it were to be confined to Germany and did not secure the rule of the superior race over the whole world for at least one or two thousand years.”

Ifs World Years Believe Two Whole Race Thousand Socialism Whole World Superiors Secure Germany Believe In Me Thousand Years Confined

Author:Adolf Hitler

“Advanced practice is the entrance into the ten thousand states of mind. Most people exist in five or six of these states in their whole lifetime.”

People Mind States Whole Practice Five Thousand Ten Six Lifetime Whole Life Concentration State Of Mind Entrances

Author:Frederick Lenz