"Nature speaks in symbols and in signs."

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“The Whittier Bi-centennial Recording Project, featuring the poem "Snow-Bound" read by Michael Maglaras”

“Perish with him the folly that seeks through evil good.”

“What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,—generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.”

“Whittier Family Homestead and Birthplace of John Greenleaf Whittier”

“Their right, like that of their white fellow-citizens, dates back to the dread arbitrament of war. Their bones whiten every stricken field of the Revolution; their feet tracked with blood the snows of Jersey; their toil built up every fortification south of the Potomac; they shared the famine and nakedness of Valley Forge, and the pestilential horrors of the old Jersey prison ship.”

“John Greenleaf Whittier Home, Amesbury, Massachusetts”

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"Men who borrow their Opinions can never repay their Debts. They are Beggars by Nature, and can therefore never get a Stock to grow rich upon."

— George Savile

Politics1551–1622

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"How can I feel so melancholy for so terrible a past? Maybe it's just the nature of us, ever wishing for things that were and could be rather than things that are and will be."

— Pierce Brown

Literature1988

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"I am primarily painting from photographs these days , in a sense this is a stylistic problem, the form is naturalistic, even though the photograph is not nature at all but a prefabricated product , I …"

— Gerhard Richter

Art1932

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"Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later."

— John D. Carmack

Technology1970

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