Hugh Miller Quotes

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Hugh Miller

Problems, Thorns

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
Hugh Miller

Life, Nature, School

But the advice was not taken - Johnstone did emigrate to Canada, and did mortgage his pension; and I fear - though I failed to trace his after history - that he suffered in consequence.
Hugh Miller

History, Fear, After

Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard.
Hugh Miller

Music, Deep, Rose

Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild beast; and this fallen world would be as certainly a moral as a natural wilderness.
Hugh Miller

Society, Sad, Moral

Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial, far beyond the reach of history, had they possessed their mountain holdings.
Hugh Miller

Time, History, Humble

They were, I doubt not, happy enough in their dark stalls, because they were horses, and had plenty to eat; and I was at times quite happy enough in the dark loft, because I was a man, and could think and imagine.
Hugh Miller

Happy, Doubt, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Scientist

Born: 1802

Died: 1856

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