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• I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore
  and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me....
• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused
  Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all...
• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearance
  but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession....
• The command of custom is great. -- Proverb
• Great is truth, and mighty above all things. -- Old Testament -- 1 Esdras iv, 41
• Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Remember Thee...
• Beware when the great God lets loose a genius upon the world.
  Then all things are at risk. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay...
• True and False are attributes of speech, not of things.
  And where speech is not, there is neither Truth nor Falsehood. Thoms Hobbes ['Leviathan', 1651]...
• many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come
  besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal....