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Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and th... - MORE Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

mankind | science

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Dark Angel, with thine aching lust
To rid the world of penitence:... - MORE Dark Angel, with thine aching lust
To rid the world of penitence:
Malicious Angel, who still dost
My soul such subtile violence!

Because of thee, no thought, no thing,
Abides for me undesecrate:
Dark Angel, ever on the wing,
Who never reachest me too late!

Lionel Pigot Johnson

angels

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I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, than blind,
For else it could not be,... - MORE I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, than blind,
For else it could not be,
That she,
Whom I adore so much, should so slight me,
And cast my love behind:
I'm sure my language to her, was as sweet,
And every close did meet
In sentence, of as subtile feet,
As hath the youngest Hee,

Ben Jonson

love | loss

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Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down... - MORE Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
You had not seen take amber light alive.

Allen Tate

swimming

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