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There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

Carl Linnaeus

Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and spring, for the air, the water, the verdure, and the song of birds.
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Beautiful Bird Blessing Song Spring Summer
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.
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Different Himself Loss Practice
If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.
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Knowledge Lost Name Yourself
Botany is based on fixed genera.
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Biology Foundation One Liner Plant Science
Nature does not proceed by leaps.
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Nature One Liner Progress
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
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Generation King Natural Science
It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus.
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Character Science
This drink has a magical power. It strengthens the weak, and revives those who have fainted. Those tired after work and physical activity can return their life forces by this drink much sooner than by nourishment. It works as a diuretic, an appetizer, an antitoxin.
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Activity Drink Magic Power Return Strength Tired Weakness Work
Linnea- A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space – from Linnaeus who resembles it.
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Flower Plant Science Space
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.
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Art Class Creation Nature Order Work
Fragments of the natural method must be sought with the greatest care. This is the first and last desideratum among botanists. Nature makes no jumps. All taxa show relationships on all sides like the countries on a map of the world.
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Care Country Fragment Greatness Map Nature Relationship Side
It is not God, but people themselves who shorten their lives by not keeping physically fit.
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Exercise God Health Live People
To live by medicine is to live horribly.
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Horrible Live Medicine One Liner
I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character by which to distinguish between Man and Ape. I myself most assuredly know of none.
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Animal Character Demand Man Myself World
A professor can never better distinguish himself in his work than by encouraging a clever pupil, for the true discovers are among them, as comets amongst the stars.
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Better Discover Encouragement Profession Space Stars True Work
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
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Animal Body Division Feeling Growth Live Natural Nature

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

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