Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in … - Walter Savage Landor

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IA is something that is proceeding very naturally, in most cases not even recognized by its developers for what it is.

Walter Savage Landor

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

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I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art: I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

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We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

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No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

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Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

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Ask yourself whether our language is complete--whether it was so before the symbolism of chemistry and the notation of the infinitesimal calculus were incorporated in it; for these are, so to speak, suburbs of our language. (And how many houses or streets does it take before a town begins to be a town?) Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.

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