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Letter "S" » stratum
«I am much mistaken, however, if he has not fine strata in his nature. He is capable of rising to heights as well as of sinking to depths.»
«The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit / not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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«The actions performed by great souls to spread,promote and disseminate knowledge to every strata of society is a great service to mankind.»
«We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.»
«Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making»