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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person a

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another. – Joseph Addison

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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? – Joseph Addison

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A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions that can possibly befall us. – Joseph Addison

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Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. – Albert Einstein

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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds. – Anne Rice

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Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. – Simone Weil

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If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept. – James Collins

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