A thinking mans greatest pleasure is to have searched for the knowable, and to have stood in awe before the unknowable.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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Master and Doctor are my titles for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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The act is all, the reputation nothing.
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'Be thou a sign of my bliss!
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