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“[Henry Cavendish] fixed the weight of the earth; he established the proportions of the constituents of the air; he occupied himself with the quantitative study of the laws of heat; and lastly, he demonstrated the nature of water and determined its volumetric composition. Earth, air, fire, and water—each and all came within the range of his observations.”
Thomas Edward Thorpe
“For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.”
Margaret Cavendish“And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty.”
Margaret Cavendish“Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.”
Margaret Cavendish“there is little difference between man and beast, but what ambition and glory makes.”
Margaret Cavendish“The current best estimate for the Earth’s weight is 5.9725 billion trillion tonnes, a difference of only about 1 per cent from Cavendish’s finding.”
Bill Bryson“But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.”
J.P. Delaney, The Girl Before“Life is, you know, but an idea. You can fill it up with anything really and deceive yourself into believing that is what you need. You can be happy, sad, benevolent, crafty, unpleasant. That man filled it up with nastiness and it destroyed him in the end. I wonder what could have made him that way. Cruelty on the part of others or cruelty in his heart?" - Lady Cavendish”
Noorilhuda, The Governess“...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other...”
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