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Asa Smith. Celestial Illustrations from Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy. 1851.
Wood engravings with hand highlighting, written by the principal of Public School No. 12 in New York City with the goal “to present all the distinguishing principles in physical Astronomy with as few words as possible”.
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“To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).”— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Havamal 119
Jag råder dig, Loddfavner,
men råd må du taga;
du får fördel, om du följer dem,
de bli goda att begagna.
Vet, om en vän du har,
som du väl tror,
far träget att honom träffa;
ty av ris höljes
och högt gräs
den väg, som ingen vandrar.
“Nature requires that the soul of every human being has seen reality; otherwise, no soul could have entered this sort of living thing. But not every soul is easily reminded of the reality there by what it finds here — not souls that got only a brief glance at the reality there, not souls who had such bad luck when they fell down here that they were twisted by bad company into lives of injustice so that they forgot the sacred objects they had seen before. Only a few remain whose memory is good enough; and they are startled when they see an image of what they saw up there. Then they are beside themselves, and their experience is beyond their comprehension because they cannot fully grasp what it is that they are seeing.”— Plato, Phaedrus
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