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Science is an adoration; a kind of worship.
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It is only a little planet But how beautiful it is.
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The world's God is treacherous and full of
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I'd sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.
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Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed
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Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.
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He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
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The leonine adrenal glands poured their blind fury Into his blood.
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Therefore astronomy is the most noble science: is the most useless.
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I strain the mind to imagine distances That are not in man's mind...
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I have grown to believe A stone is a better pillow than many visions.
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As for me, I would rather Be a worm in a wild apple than a son of man.
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Meteors are not needed less than mountains:
shine, perishing republic.
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Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
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Poetry is bound to concern itself chiefly with permanent aspects of life.
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Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.
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I decided not to tell lies in verse. Not to feign any emotions that I did not feel.
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It is expanding, the farthest nebulae Rush with the speed of light into empty space.
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Useless intelligence of far stars, dim knowledge of the spinning demons that make an atom.
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Pleasure is merely contemptible,
the dangled
Carrot the ass follows to market or precipice.
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Science is not to serve but to know. Science is for itself its own value, it is not for man.
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Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment,
they have had what they wanted
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I sadly smiling remember that the flower fades to make fruit, the fruit rots
to make earth.
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They work alongside the truth Never touching it; their equations are false But the things work.
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Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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Born:
January 10, 1887
Died:
January 20, 1962
(aged 75)
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