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«A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them»

«And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed!»

«If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters»

«False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.»

«And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.»

«And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, / And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.»

«And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda.»

«Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek.»

«And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, / Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, / And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: / And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: / Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: / Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.»

«If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that th»