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Crowns have their compass—length of days their date— Triumphs their tomb—felicit — William Shakespeare on King James I. See Payne Collier

Crowns have their compass—length of days their date— Triumphs their tomb—felicity, her fate— Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

William Shakespeare on King James I. See Payne Collier

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Perception and knowledge could never be the same. — Plato
Πᾶσα τε ἐπιστήμη χωριζομένη δικαιοσύνης καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀρετῆς πανουργία, οὐ σοφία — All knowledge
While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneo — Daniel Boorstin
Science, knowledge of the things that are possible present and past; prescience, — Leonardo da Vinci
Ce n'est pas un grand malheur d'obliger des ingrats, mais c'en est un insupporta — François de La Rochefoucauld
A moment lived in paradise Is not atoned for too dearly by death. — Friedrich Schiller
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment t — Karl Marx
Killing time has never been one of my defter abilities, due, I believe, to my ra — Michael Ward
Nemo parum diu vixit, qui virtuis perfectæ perfecto functus est munere. No one h — Cicero
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