The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
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