It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
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Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.Oliver Wendell Holmes
One unquestioned text we read, All doubt beyond, all fear above Nor crackling pile nor cursing creed Can burn or blot it God is love.
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But Memory blushes at the sneer, And Honor turns with frown defiant, And Freedom, leaning on her spear, Laughs louder than the laughing giant.
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
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You think they are crusaders sent From some infernal clime, To pluck the eyes of sentiment And dock the tail of Rhyme, To crack the voice of Melody And break the legs of Time.
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