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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. – Francis Bacon

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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. – Francis Bacon

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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy. – Irving Babbitt

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We cant have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. – Thomas Aquinas

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The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. – James Allen

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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. – Henry Ward Beecher

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