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Quote by Joseph Addison
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but t

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison

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A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

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Ghosts
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Joseph Addison
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. – Joseph Addison

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Sky & Clouds
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Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see. – Henry David Thoreau

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Wisdom

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Wisdom

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. – Joseph Roux

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Wisdom

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

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Wisdom

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It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Thinking

Its a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. – David Harris

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sad

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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Carpe Diem