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‘Nature hath made nothing so base, but can read some
instructions to the wisest men’
—Aleyn 

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‘Each shell, each crawling insect, holds a rank
Important in the plan of Him who framed
This scale of beings; holds a rank which, lost
Would break the chain, and leave a gap
Which Nature's self would rue.’
—Thomson 

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‘Every form of the beautiful contains the beginning and
the end of its beauty in itself, nor has praise any part in it
whatsoever ’

‘Traverse therefore this little moment of time at peace with
Nature and reach thy journey's end in all content.’
—Marcus Aurelius 

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