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Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

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What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.

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It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

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Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

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Knowledge, like religion, must be "experienced" in order to be known.

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Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.

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Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

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