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Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#bodies #cloudy #dead #distance #endeavor

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition. ↗

— Logan Marshall-Green

#find #i #just #less #more

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#clear #dark #falls #history #humanity

You may observe in all my lessons, that I tell you how the legs go, and those who are unacquainted with that, are entirely ignorant and work in the dark. ↗

— William Cavendish

#entirely #go #how #i #ignorant

I just really dig feeling subservient to nature. It brings me a peace and calm. Kind of like a Faustian thing, I think. ↗

— Neko Case

#calm #dig #feeling #i #i think

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#born #bred #breeding #capable #different

Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. ↗

— Timothy McVeigh

#action #based #government #i #my own

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it. ↗

— Michael Medved

#anything #complain #everybody #fix #loves

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#doing #imagination #left #men #obsessed