Samuel Johnson: Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at s — Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.

Samuel Johnson

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Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my so — Walt Whitman
Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtaine — Thomas Arnold
Not if I know myself at all. — Charles Lamb
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And — William Mountford
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. — Alfred Tennyson
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These eight rules contain all the precepts for solid and immutable proofs. — Blaise Pascal
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We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round — Omar Khayyám