Erasmus Darwin - Life Quotes

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Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Erasmus Darwin

A fool…is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Erasmus Darwin

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves
Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves;
First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,
Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass;
These, as successive generations bloom,
New powers acquire and larger limbs assume;
Whence countless groups of vegetation spring,
And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.

Erasmus Darwin

By firm immutable immortal laws
Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE,
Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife
Organic forms, and kindled into life;
How Love and Sympathy with potent charm
Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm;
Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains,
And bind Society in golden chains.

Erasmus Darwin

In earth, sea, air, around, below, above, Life's subtle woof in Nature's loom is wove, Points glued to points in living line extends, Touch'd by some goad approach the bending ends.

Erasmus Darwin