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All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics. - [Metaphysics] Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities. - [Grief] Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. - [Mathematics] The laughter of girls is, and ever was, among the delightful sounds of earth. - [Laughter] We never do anything, consciously, for the last time, without sadness of heart. - [Sadness] Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium! - Confessions of an Opium Eater [Imagination] There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. - Essays on the Poets--Alexander Pope [Literature] The public is a bad guesser. - Essays--Protestantism [Public] Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing. - Works (vol. XIV, p. 161), quoting the Emperor Galerius to a soldier who missed the target many times in succession [Failure]
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