“Strive, and hold cheap the strain; / Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 29
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“Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.”
“In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.”
“Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.”
“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”
“Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.”
“An idler is a watch that wants both hands; / As useless when it goes as when it stands.”
“Shine by the side of every path we tread / With such a luster, he that runs may read.”
“Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.”
“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
“Thinking ill of others is not in itself a good reason for thinking well of ourselves.”
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty.”
“The dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the skeptic denies the possibility.”
“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
“No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact.”
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