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"Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."
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"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"
"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
"Everything I know, I know because of love."
"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
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"In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."
"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
"To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge."
"Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action and they will have it if they cannot find it."
"The first condition of human goodness is something to love the second something to revere."
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