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01c. 1783 AD

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan / quote

02c. 1777 AD

What 's done we partly may compute, But know not what 's resisted.

Robert Burns / quote

03c. 1809 AD

She was good as she was fair, None—none on earth above her! As pure in thought as angels are: To know her was to love her.

Samuel Rogers / quote

04c. 1797 AD

He [Kippis] might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.

Robert Hall / quote

05c. 1798 AD

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

Sir James Mackintosh / quote

06c. 1810 AD

Oh, be wiser thou! Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

William Wordsworth / quote

07c. 1810 AD

A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?

William Wordsworth / quote

08c. 1810 AD

She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!

William Wordsworth / quote

09c. 1810 AD

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good. Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood, Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

William Wordsworth / quote

10c. 1810 AD

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

William Wordsworth / quote

11c. 1801 AD

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Sir Walter Scott / quote

12c. 1803 AD

To know, to esteem, to love, and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge / quote

13c. 1808 AD

And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,— A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell.

Robert Southey / quote

14c. 1804 AD

Not if I know myself at all.

Charles Lamb / quote

15c. 1804 AD

The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling—a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.

Charles Lamb / quote

16c. 1814 AD

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Henry Clay / quote

17c. 1815 AD

I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart, I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.

Thomas Moore / quote

18c. 1815 AD

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

Thomas Moore / quote

19c. 1815 AD

Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away. I never nurs'd a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well And love me, it was sure to die.

Thomas Moore / quote

20c. 1823 AD

Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.

Lord Brougham / quote

21c. 1817 AD

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.

Daniel Webster / quote

22c. 1817 AD

Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.

Daniel Webster / quote

23c. 1806 AD

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel—farewell! farewell!

Lord Byron / quote

24c. 1806 AD

Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?

Lord Byron / quote