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We watch'd her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. Thomas Hood		Tuesday Sep 08, 2026
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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy. Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt

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	Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt
	(1769-1859) Albert W. Daw Collection - German naturalist, traveler & statesman. Brother of Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt.

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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves. Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.