DE WITT CLINTON
American statesman (1769 - 1828)
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Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but
knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame, unlimited
in space, and infinite in duration. In the performance of its
sacred offices, it fears no danger, spares no expense, looks in
the volcano, dives into the ocean, perforates the earth, wings
its flight into the skies, explores sea and land, contemplates
the distant, examines the minute, comprehends the great, ascends
to the sublime--no place too remote for its grasp, no height too
exalted for its reach.
- [Knowledge]
Last Revised: 2008 June 30
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