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Life is the offspring of death.
In solitude all great things are born.
We hail science as man's truest friend and noblest helper.
Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.
Heaven alone, not earth, is destined to witness the repose of faith.
The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.
Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit.
The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.