Langdon Smith quotes
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“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time.”
-- Langdon SmithSource : Langdon Smith (1922). “Poems of Evolution”
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“Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.”
-- Langdon SmithSource : Langdon Smith (1909). “Evolution: A Poem”
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“When you were a tadpole and I was a fish, in the Palæozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.”
-- Langdon Smith
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“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.”
Source : Abraham Cowley (1679). “The Works of Mr Abraham Cowley: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed : and Those which He Design'd for the Press”, p.11
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“I have friends who remember seeing fish hauled onto a boat's deck and beaten to death.”
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