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Quote by Jane Porter
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other mens candles at our lam

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other mens candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. – Jane Porter

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Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared. – Jane Porter

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Happiness
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Jane Porter
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Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. – Jane Porter

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It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of times chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred. – Harold Brodkey

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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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