Quote #29069
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by...
Quote #11574
The “highest” states of mind held up before mankind by christianity as of supreme...
Quote #7400
We two are to ourselves a crowd.
Quote #14300
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.
Quote #12008
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall,...
Quote #15365
Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, Providence, – what are they?
Quote #5337
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Quote #33540
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he...
Quote #9673
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to,...