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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
~ Montaigne 1533 - 1592
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
~ Jeremy Taylor 1613 - 1667
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Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?
~ Cicero 106 BC - 43 BC
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Humility does not consist of having a worse opinion of ourselves than we deserve, or in abasing ourselves lower than we really are - humility is based upon a true and just sense of our weakness, misery, and sin. If you rightly feel and live in this sense of your condition, you will live in humility.
~ William Law 1686 - 1761
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It is always darkest just before the dawneth.
~ Thomas Fuller 1608 - 1661
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Whoever lies shows that he despises God and fears men.
~ Montaigne 1533 - 1592
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
~ Georg Lichtenberg 1742 - 1799
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It is a strange thing that in a sea voyage where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it.
~ Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
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