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Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled fingerreached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuousthread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blindamphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its... Loren Eiseley
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors. E. O. Wilson
The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence? The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation. Richard Dawkins
There was a Young Person of Smyrna, whose grandmother threatened to burn her; But she seized on the cat, and said, "Granny, burn that! You incongruous old woman of Smyrna! Edward Lear
Henry Ward Beecher quote: "Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones,..."
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. Henry Ward Beecher
Oscar Wilde quote: "It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves..."
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Oscar Wilde
Well? you may ask,?how may I know when I am in love?. . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]:?My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart. David O. McKay
How happy is the little stoneThat rambles in the road alone,And doesn't care about careers,And exigencies never fears;Whose coat of elemental brownA passing universe put on;And independent as the sun,Associates or glows alone,Fulfilling absolute decreeIn casual simplicity. Emily Dickinson
Of France and England, did this king succeed; Whose state so many had the managing. That they lost France and made his England bleed. William Shakespeare
Rabindranath Tagore quote: "Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss..."
Alas, why are my nights all thus lost? Ah, why do I ever miss hissight whose breath touches my sleep? Rabindranath Tagore
Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; Oscar Wilde
Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not be important. When, however, we come to the question of man's Being, this is not something we can simply compute by adding together those kinds of Being which body, soul, and spirit respectively possess--kinds of being whose nature has not as yet been determined. And even if we should attempt such an... Martin Heidegger
And when she one day turns on me and calls me a Bitch in front of Hollister, Give me the strength, Lord, to yank her directly into a cab in front of her friends, For I will not have that Shit. I will not have it. And should she choose to be a Mother one day, be my eyes, Lord, that I may see her, lying on a blanket on the floor at 4:50 A. M., all-at-once exhausted, bored, and in love with the little creature whose poop is leaking up its back. Tina Fey
I left parts of myself everywhere, The way absent-minded people leave. Gloves and umbrellas. Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck Charles Simic
Daniel Defoe quote: "Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the..."
Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them Daniel Defoe

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