“Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been there before us.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 11
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“That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.”
“Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.”
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”
“I heard the trailing garments of the Night sweep through her marble halls!”
“Build on, and make thy castles high and fair, rising and reaching upward to the skies.”
“Out of the shadows of night the world rolls into light; it is daybreak everywhere.”
“The grave itself is but a covered bridge, leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!”
“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity—but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”
“Something the heart must have to cherish, must love and joy and sorrow learn.”
“There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.”
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
“Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.”
“I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
“All knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.”
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
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