Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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- As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
- To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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