Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set … - Thomas Starr King

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Trust me, true?" Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?

Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

Connections, Facts, Final, Hieroglyphic, Like, Nature

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Be sure of the foundation of your life. Know why you live as you do. Be ready to give a reason for it. Do not, in such a matter as life, build an opinion or custom on what you guess is true. Make it a matter of certainty and science.

Foundation, Give, Giving, Know, Life, Ready

The fact is, that of all God's gifts to the sight of man, color, is the holiest, the most divine, the most solemn. We speak rashly of gay color and sad color, for color cannot at once be good and gay. All good color is in some degree pensive, the loveliest is melancholy, and the purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most.

Degree, Gay, Men, Pensive, Speak, Thoughtful

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

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What a privilege it is to be an American!

American, Privilege

Nature never writes a blind hand.

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Trust me, true?" Butch barked a laugh. "Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?

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