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"What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out."
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"Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects."

"One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better."

"Out of clutter, find simplicity."

"How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?"

"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
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"Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There's more of wisdom in it."

"Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more."

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things."

"For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves."

"We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake the faith and morals hold Which Milton held."
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