John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Henry Huxley. (1825–1895) |
| 7547 |
| If some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and wound up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer. |
| Materialism and Idealism. |
| 7548 |
| If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger? |
| Science and Culture. |
| 7549 |
| Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. |
| The coming Age of the Origin of Species. |
| 7550 |
| It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. |
| The coming Age of the Origin of Species. |
| 7551 |
| Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. |
| Animal Automatism. |
| 7552 |
| Veracity is the heart of morality. |
| Universities actual and ideal. |
| 7553 |
| The great end of life is not knowledge but action. |
| Technical Education. |
| Francis Turner Palgrave. (1824–1897) |
| 7554 |
| Time’s corrosive dewdrop eats The giant warrior to a crust Of earth in earth and rust in rust. |
| A Danish Barrow. |
| 7555 |
| Let the children play And sit like flowers upon thy grave And crown with flowers,—that hardly have A briefer blooming-tide than they. |
| A Danish Barrow. |