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"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."
"Life is all about discovery."
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
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"I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life."
"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."
"In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them."
"Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions."
"But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it."
"When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain."
"There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture."
"I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me."
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