Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county.
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness. - George Iles
Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.
- George Iles
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas. - George Iles
Ten builders rear an arch, each in turn lifting it higher; but it is the tenth man, who drops in the keystone, who hears our huzzas.
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value. - George Iles
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt. - George Iles
To render aid to the worthless is sheer waste. Rain does not freshen the Dead Sea, but only enables it to dissolve more salt.
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A gui… - George Iles
They will listen with both ears to what is said by the men just a step or two ahead of them, who stand nearest to them, and within arm's reach. A gui…
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars. - George Iles
Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up. - George Iles
Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.
Dumbness and silence are two different things. - George Iles
Dumbness and silence are two different things.
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream. - George Iles
Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
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