Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
Lord Chesterfield
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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. -
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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.
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- Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
- Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.
- I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.