Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.Joseph Joubert
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear.
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There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge
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The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts.- Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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