Hugh Miller

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Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.


— Hugh Miller


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


— Hugh Miller


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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


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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


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To which is appended a series of geological papers read before the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1858)
Sketch-book of popular geology being a series of lectures delivered before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh (1859)
Popular geology: a series of lectures read before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh with Descriptive sketches from a geologist's portfolio (1859)
The headship of Christ and The rights of the Christian people (1860)
Tales and sketches (1862)
Edinburgh and its neighbourhood geological and historical; with the geology of the Bass rock (1863)
Essays historical and biographical political social literary and scientific (1865)
Sketch-book of popular geology (1869)
Hugh Miller's memoir : from stonemason to geologist by Hugh Miller (1995)
Hugh Miller and the controversies of Victorian science (1996). Before his death he wrote a poem called Strange but True. In 1840 the popular party in the Church with which he had been associated started a newspaper the Witness and Miller was called to be editor in Edinburgh a position which he retained till the end of his life.