"How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever."

-- Nathanael Emmons

#Intelligent Quotes #Race Quotes #Forever Quotes

“I got in trouble in Catholic school for rolling the waist of my skirt down.”
“Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.”
“One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.”
“Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.”

Source : John Galsworthy (2013). “Delphi Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)”, p.3602, Delphi Classics
“I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.”
“Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.”
“Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!”
“Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades, The Inquisition, Calvin's Geneva all prove that this is not the case. These events were pre-eminently about obedience to authority.”

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