'It's this accursed Science,' ...

\'It\'s this accursed Science,\' I cried. \'It\'s the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.\'
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
 George Herbert

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None knows the weight of another's burden.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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A good mother is worth hundreds of schoolmasters.
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Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
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