A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.Henry David Thoreau
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
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It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong he may still properly have other concerns to engage him but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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Our circumstances answer to our expectations and the demand of our natures.
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